Navy naming ship after gay rights activist Harvey Milk

[Schmide]

Most homophobic thread I've seen on AT

Have you ever hung out with a bunch o queens?

QED

 

[Moonbeam]

A joke of my trade.

What's long and black and full of sea man?

Normally that would be a submarine, but perhaps here the Harvey Milk.

 

[Uhtrinity]

All joking aside, it seems completely justified. He was a Navy Officer and all the ships in that line are being named after activists per the article.

 

[spacejamz]

So the Navy is following tradition of honoring their brave veterans? No problem found here.

Serving on this new ship will be liking riding a moped or dating an over weight girl....it is all good until your friends see you.

 

[SViscusi]

Could be worse, they could have named a space probe after him and sent it to Uranus.

 

[Perknose]

One has to wonder if Harvey Milk would want a Navy Ship named after him.

He would have been proud:

Milk came from a Navy family and commissioned in the service in 1951. He served as a diving officer in San Diego during the Korean War on the submarine rescue ship Kittiwake until 1955. Milk was honorably discharged from the service as a lieutenant junior grade.

 

[Schmide]

http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4400&tid=600&ct=4

Latest version.

 

[Bart*Simpson]

A ship full of lubricants named after a gay man. The jokes will write themselves.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Could be worse, they could have named a space probe after him and sent it to Uranus.

Well if they'd done that we could alter the intro to Star Trek and make it something like this;
Manspace...the final frontier
These are the backdoor voyages of the gay rights activist Harvey Milk
To seek out new adult nightlife and new male frontiers
To boldly go where no straight man has gone before