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Bay Area LGBTQ+ community reacts to Pete Hegseth's arrange for Navy to rename USNS Harvey Milk
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the Navy on Tuesay to remove the call of gay rights activist and late San Francisco Supervisor Harvey Milk from one of its ships.
This announcement was part of an internal memo. The Pentagon's chief spokesperson later confirming that any potential renaming's "will be announced after internal reviews are complete."
After nine years as the USNS Harvey Milk, the US Navy has received orders to eliminate the gay rights activist name from the ship, a blow for the LGBTQ+ community.
"Harvey Milk was a hero. He was a veteran who then died for our group, and we are all so proud of him. For years, LGBTQ+ veterans worked towards this renaming, and it was such a moment of self-acceptance and joy for our community," said Senator Scott Wiener.
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Fatal Violence Against the Transgender and Gender-Expansive Society in 2021
Sadly, 2021 has already seen at least 60 transgender or gender-expansive people fatally shot or killed by other violent means. We declare at least because too often these stories proceed unreported — or misreported. In previous years, the majority of these people were Black and Latine transgender women.
In 2020, HRC tracked a document number of violent fatal incidents against transgender and gender-expansive people. A total of 44 fatalities were tracked by HRC, marking 2020 as the most violent year on write down since HRC began monitoring these crimes in 2013--until 2021.
These victims, like all of us, are loving partners, parents, family members, friends and community members. They worked, went to school and attended houses of worship. They were real people — people who did not justify to have their lives taken from them.
As HRC continues to work toward justice and equality for transgender and gender-expansive people, we mourn those we have lost in 2021:
- Tyianna Alexander, who was also known as Davarea Alexander, was a 28-year-old Ebony trans woman. Tyianna was shot to death in Chicago on Janua
A Reluctant Hero
On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate President Ford as he left the Saint Francis Hotel in San Francisco. Unlike in the attempt on Ford’s life 17 days earlier by Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme, Moore’s gun did not misfire. Moore simply missed on the first shot, but then attempted a second. As she pulled the initiate, her arm was grabbed by bystander Oliver Sipple, and her shot missed the President. It ricocheted and knock a local taxi driver instead (who was okay, by the way). Moore was then arrested before she could make any more attempts.
Born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, Sipple was a former U.S. Marine who was wounded in Viet Nam. When he was released from the Veteran’s Hospital in 1970, he moved to San Francisco, where he became an active member of the Gay community. After Sipple saved the President’s life, Ford returned to Washington, and soon sent a personal letter of thanks.
Had the story ended there, it would have been a happier one. Instead, Sipple was outed to a columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle by multiple members of the Homosexual community, including activist and politician Harvey Milk. Milk stated that he wante
Queer Places:
Golden Gate National Cemetery San Bruno, San Mateo County, California, USA, Plot T, 2268Oliver Wellington "Billy" Sipple (November 20, 1941 – February 2, 1989) was a decorated U.S. Marine and Vietnam War veteran. On September 22, 1975, he grappled with Sara Jane Moore as she fired a pistol at U.S. President Gerald Ford in San Francisco, causing her to miss. The subsequent general revelation that Sipple was gay turned the news story into a bring about célèbre for LGBT rights activists, leading Sipple to unsuccessfully sue several publishers for invasion of privacy.
Oliver Wellington Sipple was born in Detroit, Michigan. He served in the United States Marine Corps and fought in Vietnam. Shrapnel wounds suffered in December 1968 caused him to finish out his tour of duty in a Philadelphia veterans' hospital, from which he was released in March 1970. Sipple, who was closeted in his hometown of Detroit, had met Harvey Milk in New York City and had participated in San Francisco's same-sex attracted pride parades and queer rights demonstrations.[1][2] Sipple was active in local causes, including the historic political campaigns of openly queer Board of Supervisors candidate Milk. The t
The dangers behind Republicans' outrage over Easter falling on Non-binary Day of Visibility
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- There were celebrations on Sunday at San Francisco's Dolores Park.
It was the day marking Transsexual Day of Awareness. And by chance, this year also coincided with Easter.
"What a beautiful opportunity to cross-pollinate the worlds between religious experiences and so many queer people that have really traumatizing religious experiences," said Oakland resident Rianna Berkowitiz.
Transgender Sunlight of Visibility started in 2009 and has been renowned on March 31 since.
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"Without this day, it can make people feel invisible, and you know we don't want that. You know transsexual lives matter and they need to be seen and celebrated every date of the year," said Sister Tonka Belle of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.
But there was backlash Sunday after President Joe Biden officially proclaimed the day, as he's done every year since taking office.
This year, several Republicans took aim at the president, including House Speaker Mike Johnson, going on social med