Milk, who served in the Navy during the Korean War, became one of the country’s first openly gay elected officials, winning a position on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977.

U.S. Navy is renaming a ship named for gay rights leader Harvey Milk and considering new names for others named for prominent Americans.

Pete Hegseth has reportedly ordered the U.S. Navy to change the name of an oiler ship named after Harvey Milk, who was a gay rights activist.