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Navy launches ship, an oiler, named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk

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A Navy ship named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served four years in the Navy before being forced out, was christened and launched in San Diego Bay on Saturday.

The replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk slid down the shipyard ways after a bottle of champagne was smashed on the bow by former Navy officer Paula M. Neira, clinical program director for the John Hopkins Center for Transgender Health.

Milk’s nephew, Stuart Milk, and Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro watched the traditional ceremony.

“The secretary of the Navy needed to be here today, not just to amend the wrongs of the past, but to give inspiration to all of our LGBTQ community leaders who served in the Navy, in uniform today and in the civilian workforce as well too, and to tell them that we’re committed to them in the future,” Del Toro said.

Del Toro said that, like many others, Milk had to “mask that very important part of his life” while he served in the Navy.

“For far too long, sailors like Lt. Milk were forced into the shadows or, worse yet, forced out of our beloved Navy,” Del Toro said. “That injustice is part of our Navy history, but so is the perseverance of all who continue to serve in the face of injustice.”

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46 Comments on Navy launches ship, an oiler, named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk

  1. Word on the docks is that it’s using secret new Dutch Rudder technology which will allow it to take multiple torpedoes directly into the stern, and still keep pumping oil.

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  2. So it slips into the wrong port under full steam so it can get slippery, then discharge its load all over the fleet?

    Sounds like a pretty legit name, then, although were it a crew ship discharging seamen, that would work too…

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  3. An oiler.
    How appropriate.
    I wonder how many navy personnel are happy about this?
    I’m sure the pc politicians masquerading as officers are happy but what about the ranks?

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  4. “Do what you want a butt pirate is free, you’re a butt pirate!
    Yarr har fiddle with pee pees
    A butt pirate is alright to be
    Screw what you want a butt pirate is free
    You’re a butt pirate!
    You’re a butt pirate!
    OUCH!

    We got us a nose (A nose!)
    To lead us to a hidden ass
    Thats all locked up with breifs (with breifs!)
    And buried deep away
    Well dig up the ass (The ass!)
    We want to fill that precious booty
    Burst open the condom!
    And then we say hooray!

    Yarr har fiddle with pee pees
    If you love to plow in the sea
    Weigh testes!
    Yarr har fiddle with pee pees
    A butt pirate is alright to be
    Screw what you want a butt pirate is free
    You’re a butt pirate!
    Arr yarr ahoy and avast
    Ram it in deep and youre pounding too fast
    Hang the black turd at the end of your mast!
    You’re a butt pirate!”
    (Apologies to Lazy Town)

    https://youtu.be/i8ju_10NkGY

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  5. “forced into the shadows”
    Those shadows that all these oppressed groups live in are more vast than I imagined.
    Can’t wait for when the different letters of the rainbow realize they are only worth the letter they represent.

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  6. https://snltranscripts.jt.org/78/78rcowperthwaite.phtml

    Captain Ned, I learned from my shipmates, was a very manly, virile, manful person, and a firm believer in strict discipline, corporal punishment, and nude apartment wrestling. How truly strict he was, I learned on our first day out of port, when out First Mate called all hands on deck for an important annoucement.”

    [ dissolve onto scenes aboard The Raging Queen ] [ First Mate Spunk rings the deck bell ]
    First Mate Spunk: Alright, please, everybody, please! Welcome aboard The Raging Queen! Now, of course, I can’t possibly introduce everybody, so you’re just going to have to wear your little name tags. And if that’s the worst thing you’ll wear on this voyage, you’re lucky. Now, before I introduce Captain Ned, there’s some quiche over here, some salad, and some banana bread in the bowl, and there should be a brie around, if someone hasn’t eaten it. And now, here is our own Captain Ned!

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  7. What will they name the ship that memorializes a president that is a pedophile that showered with his daughter who writes that she was “hyper-sexualized @ a young age”?

    The proggies love their perversions to the point that that need to foist them off on their young children and teach about those perversions in our public schools.

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  8. The crew give a limp left hand salute and say “Heeeeeeyyyyyyyy”.
    On shore-leave they all drink hard seltzer and head for the men’s bath house for a rub down. Then it’s off to drink margaritas and party at the niño maricón pub.

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  9. The big joke when I was in the Navy was Join the Navy and ride the WAVES. Now you can do both, ride the waves and the WAVES if they’re not dykes and lesbians. I wonder what Shellback initiations are like now with women on board ships, obviously no more guys pretending to be women with coconut boobs but let the trannies fill that role.

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  10. Cuz the only thing important on a warship is being inclusive. Don’t forget to haul up the rainbow flag.
    I’m guessing they’re going to have safe spaces when the attack comes, they’re going to need them.
    In looking at the cluelessness of a lot of people in this nation walking the streets and in power makes me wonder if we can survive this? We’re going to need a miracle.

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  11. Harvey Milk was a child sex predator and a big supporter of cult leader Jim Jones. Faggot. Pedophile. Murderous cult apologist.

    So, having owned slaves hundreds of years ago when it was legal is enough to get statues and monuments taken down but rape some little boys and you get a ship named after you. We. Are. So. Fucked.

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