Navy

Republicans are, of course, denouncing the policy.

“Today, we are celebrating something much bigger than tolerance,” Milk’s nephew, Stuart, said at the christening ceremony for the USNS Harvey Milk.

A welcomed development from the Navy — that once discharged the civil rights leader — just in time for today’s observation of #HarveyMilkDay.

In 1778, George Washington had a soldier drummed out of the military for sodomy. 243 years later, the Fife and Drum Corps, Honor Guard Company, and the Commander-in-Chief’s Guard were all there to celebrate a lesbian general’s retirement.

Support the troops, unless the troops happen to be LGBTQ.

After a Republican political candidate attacked trans people during his campaign, these neighbors decided to put up a billboard of their own.

This heart-warming couple wanted to honor Ellen too.

Despite what Trump says in his tweets, it will be more expensive to discharge and replace transgender servicemembers than provide them medical care.

That’s just one of the grim details from the autopsy on 25-year-old Dee Whigham that were shared in court.

Before he became a gay rights advocate and icon, he was Lt. Harvey Milk, USN.

Dwanya Hickerson is charged with killing Dee “DJ” Whigham inside her Biloxi hotel room.

“If you were discharged under ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell,’ come in,” says the top man in the U.S. Navy.

“I am speechless.”