MAY 15TH - MAY 21ST, 2019 THE ULTIMATE QUEER GUIDE

Veterans Affairs
The navy makes headway with more
gay history!
In 2016, the then Secretary of the Navy
Ray Mabus officially announced that
three naval vessels would be named after
Murray-Ramirez explains the shipbuilding
process in a quote to San Diego Gay and
Lesbian News.
"There are three official ceremonies for a
building of a ship," he explains. "One, the
official first cutting of the steel ceremony.
Two, the keel laying ceremony and three,
the official christening of the ship."
Harvey Milk is known mostly for his
activism in the San Francisco Bay area as
a politician, but he also has a connection
to San Diego. He was stationed here in the
1950s while serving in the Navy.
prominent U.S. civil rights leaders which
include Congressman John Lewis, gay
rights activist and politician Harvey Milk,
and U.S. Senator Robert Kennedy.
City Commissioner Nicole Murray-
Ramirez who, with the International
Imperial Courts Council led the successful
national letter-writing campaign to name
a Navy ship after gay politician and LGBT
activist Harvey Milk. That ship, a Military
Sealift Command fleet oiler, will also be
constructed in San Diego.
Commissioner Ramirez, who also serves
on the National Board of the Harvey Milk
Foundation, has been speaking with Navy
brass and Nassco President Kevin Graney
concerning the upcoming ceremonies and
christening for the USNS Harvey Milk.
Other names in the class include former
Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren
whose court ruled to desegregate U.S.
schools, former Attorney General Robert
F. Kennedy, women’s right activist Lucy
Stone and abolitionist and women’s rights
activist Sojourner Truth.
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