The U.S. Navy just dedicated its newest vessel to known sexual predator and gay politician Harvey Milk because he ‘made a difference.’
The leaders of the U.S. military have learned from decades of their failed wars that diversity is strength. So they’ve named a shiny new ship after known predator of underage boys Harvey Milk. The U.S. Navy launched the USNS Harvey Milk in San Diego on Saturday, named for the first openly homosexual man elected to public office in California. Milk has an even stronger legacy, though: He was a pederast. “He made a difference,” said Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro during Saturday’s ceremony. “That’s the kind of naval leader that we need.” The politician had a proclivity for male minors, who included 16-year-old Jack Galen McKinley. Milk’s biographer Randy Shilts wrote about the predator’s runaway lover McKinley in his biography, “The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk.” “Sixteen-year-old McKinley was looking for some kind of father figure.… At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him,” Shilts wrote. According to his biographer, Milk would prime troubled, underage boys and young men with booze and drugs, then coerce them into sexual acts. One of his young boyfriends,25-year-old Jack Lira, was just another “young waif with substance-abuse problems” for Milk to prey on, according to Shilts.
