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jmowreader

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2. The Navy keeps incredible records
Sat Jun 14, 2025, 12:32 PM
Jun 14

The reason there are gay communities in harbor towns like San Francisco and NYC is the Navy had the policy during World War II of taking gay sailors to the one closest to where the ship was at the time they were discovered and dishonorably discharging them. Using the precedent of Fort A.P. Hill, where they picked a soldier with a last name that starts with A, one that starts with P and one named Hill, choose ten gay WWII sailors whose names start with the letters in Harvey Milk and name the ship after them.

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