https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-59196462
Harvey Milk: US Navy launches ship named for gay rights leader
The US Navy has launched a ship named after a gay rights activist forced to resign from the service because of his sexuality in the 1950s.
The USNS Harvey Milk was launched in San Diego on Saturday in a service attended by Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro and Milk's nephew, Stuart.
It is one of six new ships to be named after famed US civil rights leaders.
Others include former Chief Justice Earl Warren and slain presidential candidate Robert Kennedy.
Milk served as a diving officer and Lieutenant aboard the submarine rescue ship USS Kittiwake during the Korean War. But he was forced out of the service following two weeks of interrogation about his sexuality in 1955.
He later became one of America's first openly gay politicians, elected in 1977 to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
But a year later he was shot and killed by Dan White, a former city supervisor with whom he had frequently clashed.
(continued, didn't harm his political career, got the full American)
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calling warships after pôlitical activists, that's so gay!
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His opinion didn't come into it. So much for defending freedom.
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I think they should name them after male porn stars. Or dildos. Here is Steely Dan
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The USS Donald J. Trump.
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√ tho I heard Russia had one in mind for him. 
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I thought this was going to be about self-aware, autonomous warships.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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What sub was that?
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we don't want that, if they notice the kind of shitheads we are, they'll just unleash their whole arsenal at us.
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I want to download my mind into a nuclear powered giant battleship, and cruise the world's oceans, punishing evildoers on all the 7 seas!
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Woke Battleships, when two lgbtqi people play the game Battleships.
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I thought they called you 'Submarine Boy' for entirely different reasons.JimC wrote:I want to download my mind into a nuclear powered giant battleship, and cruise the world's oceans, punishing evildoers on all the 7 seas!
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I want to do the same, but with a sub, and punish whalers and other despoilers of the seas.
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