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The US Navy will call the auxiliary ship in honor of a prominent politician and gay activist Harvey Milk , reports the BBC. The tanker, which have yet to be built , will be called the USNS Harvey Milk , informs the American Naval Institute website .

Milk became the first American politician , who confessed that he was a homosexual . He was killed one year after his victory in election for San Francisco 's Board of Supervisors. In his teenage years Milk served in the navy and took part in the Korean War .

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