WE WILL BE RIGHT BACK ON THE YOUNG TURKS.
>> WE ARE BACK ON THE ON TURK.
BRETT, LISETTE, ALONSO, AND BEN.
>> LET'S DO A HARVEY MILK STORY.
THERE IS GOING TO BE ñ A NEW U.S.
NAVY SHIP, THE US HARVEY MILK.
HARVEY MILK MADE HISTORY FOR BEING ONE OF THE FIRST
OPENLY GAY POLITICIANS IN AMERICA WHEN HE WAS ON THE
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS FOR THE CITY OF SAN FRANCISCO, AND
OTHER GOING TO NAME A NAVY SHIP AFTER HIM.
HE WAS ALSO A JUNIOR LIEUTENANT IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY.
THAT IS VERY EXCITING.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK?
>>I THINK IT IS A HUGE DEAL.
WE ARE ñ
THE IDEA OF GAYS IN THE MILITARY IS STILL SO FRESH AND NEW.
OBAMA MENTIONED THE MARINE HAS TO HIDE HIS HUSBAND, THAT
IS CUTTING-EDGE.
THAT IS A RELATIVELY RECENT PHENOMENON.
WE HAD TO GET RID OF DON'T ASK, DON'T TELL.
IT'S GREAT THAT HE IS BEING TREATED AS THE AMERICAN
HERO HE IS.
I LOVE THAT THIS WHOLE LINE OF OIL SHIPS ARE ALL NAMED
AFTER CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVISTS.
THERE WAS THE US AND S SOJOURNER TRUTH, WHICH IS SO COOL.
I HAVE HEARD A FEW GAYS SAY HE WOULD NOT WANT TO BE PART
OF THE MILITARY, BLAH BLAH.
THE DAY HE WAS ASSASSINATED IN SAN FRANCISCO HE WAS
WEARING A U.S.
NAVY BELT BUCKLE.
HE WAS NOT ONLY A VETERAN, BUT A PROUD ONE.
YOU HELD GREATEST SEEM FOR THAT PART OF HIS LIFE.
THE FACT THAT THE NAVY IS NAMING A SHIP AFTER HIM I THINK IS
A GREAT TRIBUTE TO AN AMERICAN HERO.
>>HE IS AWESOME.
FOR ANYONE WHO IS UPSET ABOUT NAMING IT AFTER HIM, WHEN
HE SERVED IN THE MILITARY HE SERVED ON THE USS KITTY
WAKE, WHICH IS NAMED AFTER A KIND OF BIRD.
SO FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT THINK THAT IT NEEDS TO BE SOME SORT
OF INTENSE MILITARY GENERAL, HE WAS ON THE USS SEAGULL.
I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT NAMED AFTER A CIVIL RIGHTS LEADER
THAN A SEAGULL.
>> THIS IS THE GENERATION THAT IS GOING TO GIVE US THE
FAMOUS GAY PEOPLE.
THE FIRST PERSON THAT GOT THE PURPLE HEART IN AFGHANISTAN
WAS GAY.
NOW IS THE TIME WE CAN LOOK BACK AT PEOPLE WHO DID PROUDLY
SERVE THE MILITARY, AND THEN WERE LATER ABLE TO LIVE
THEIR FULL LIVES AS GAY PEOPLE.
HARVEY MILK MADE AN IMPRESSION ON AMERICAN CULTURE.
HE WAS THE FIRST OPENLY GAY OFFICIAL ELECTED IN THE US.
>>HIGHEST PROFILE, ABSOLUTELY.
>>HIS LEGACY REVERBERATES TODAY.
>>WHAT WAS YOUR REACTION DURING OBAMA'S SPEECH?
HIS HUSBAND IS DIFFERENT THAN HER WIFE, ARE WE PAST THE
POINTS?
>> I KNOW PEOPLE WHO ARE IN THE MILITARY WHO ARE LIFELONG
MILITARY FOLKS WHO CAN SUDDENLY NOW NOT HAVE TO HIDE THEIR
HUSBAND, AND CAN OPENLY GO OUT AS A COUPLE, AND ONE IS IN
UNIFORM AND WHAT IS NOT.
I KNOW MIXED NATIONAL COUPLES THAT CAN NOW GET MARRIED,
AND ONES FROM CANADA CAN NOW ñ I HAVE BEEN GOING TO A LOT OF
WEDDINGS IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
THIS IS A TIME OF FLUX.
>>THAT'S ONE OF THE DOWNSIDES.
>>SO MANY WEDDINGS AND REGISTRATIONS.
I CAN'T GET ANYMORE TOASTERS.
THIS IS VERY EXCITING NEWS AND I THINK THAT EVEN THOUGH MILK
IS A BIG LEFTY, AND PROTESTED VIETNAM, I THINK HE WOULD
BE THRILLED TO HAVE A NAVY SHIP NAMED AFTER HIM.
>>AWESOME.
I AGREE.
SO LET IT BE WRITTEN.
LET'S GO TO KENTUCKY.
>>YOU KNOW WHAT ñ
>> DAMMIT, BEN.
WE HAVE MOVED ON.
>>
THIS IS AN APPROPRIATE QUESTION, BUT IT IS NAVY RELATED.
I HAVE IT ON MY PHONE, IN THE NAVY.
THAT IS JUST A STEREOTYPE THAT GAYS WOULD'VE JOINED
THE NAVY AS OPPOSED TO THE ARMY.
IS THERE AN OUNCE OF ñ
>>I THINK THERE MIGHT BE AN OUNCE OF TRUTH TO IT.
I THINK THE DIFFERENCE BEING THAT SAILORS ARE ISOLATED.
YOU ARE ON THAT BOAT AND IT IS NOT A BOAT OF NOTHING BUT
MEN, AND YOU ARE ON THAT BOAT.
IT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN BEING IN A SUBMARINE AND
BEING ON A BASE.
THERE ARE HOMOS IN EVERY BRANCH OF THE SERVICE,
ALWAYS HAS BEEN.
>>NOT THE COAST GUARD.
>> I THINK THE NAVY HAS A SPECIAL PLACE.
BUT THAT IS THEORETICAL, I DON'T KNOW IF IT IS FOR SURE.
>>
WE WILL BE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH ANOTHER EPISODE OF ASK THE GAY.
THANKS FOR COMING.