* Replenishment oiler USNS Harvey Milk was christened on Saturday in San Diego
* Named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served four years in the Navy
* Milk was one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office
* He was assassinated in 1978 by former San Francisco official Dan White
* Step was hailed, amid separate claims that armed forces are now too woke
A Navy ship named for slain gay rights leader Harvey Milk, who served four years in the Navy before being forced out, was christened by a transgender veteran and launched in San Diego Bay on Saturday.
Milk was one of the first openly gay candidates elected to public office.
He was serving on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978 when a former political colleague, Dan White, assassinated him and Mayor George Moscone at City Hall.
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.
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