An initiative co-led by LGBTQ veterans aims to see the 2028 presidential candidates pledge to name a new naval vessel in honor of the late gay San Francisco supervisor Harvey Milk. Both the Democratic and Republican parties are also being asked to include doing so in their platforms adopted at their nominating conventions ahead of that November’s election.

In exclusive interviews with the Bay Area Reporter ahead of the Milk naval ship campaign being announced Thursday, several of its leaders detailed what they will be asking of the major parties and their candidates seeking to lead the country come 2029. One is a pledge that if elected president, they will nominate a secretary of the Navy supportive of naming a naval ship in honor of Milk, a Navy veteran who in 1977 became the first gay p

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