The Trump-Musk feud has erased this news from our brains, but it was only two days ago that Pete Hegseth ordered the United States Naval Ship Harvey Milk—named for the first out gay man to be elected to American public office—to be renamed. The Defense Secretary didn't identity a new moniker for the ship, but it will probably be the USNS Kettlebell Swing or the USNS Morgan Wallen or the USNS Can Always Work In A Happy Gilmore Quote or whatever. This move, announced at the beginning of Pride Month, is spiteful and stupid, and yet there's also something hopeful buried in all this pointless cruelty.

It’s something I learned from Randy Shilts’ biography of Harvey Milk, The Mayor of Castro Street , and it explains something I’d been wondering about for a long time. In 1940, in the run up

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