At the start of “Pride Month,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth floated the idea of renaming the USNS Harvey Milk, a Navy oiler ship named after a leftist gay rights activist.

Military.com reported Tuesday that internal documents and an anonymous official claim Hegseth is going after Milk’s ship. Milk has been propped up by the left as a so-called “gay icon,” despite allegations that he engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with minors, specifically teenage boys.

Milk allegedly had a sexual relationship with Jack Galen McKinley, a 16-year-old runaway, in New York in 1964. Their relationship supposedly lasted five years and was documented in biographies, including “The Mayor of Castro Street” and “Harvey Milk: His Lives and Death.” McKinley infamously struggled with addiction and committed suicide in 1980.

Harvey Milk was a sexual predator who preyed on a 16-year-old, Jack Galen McKinley, when Milk was 33.

Democrats have made him a “gay rights icon.”

Thank you @PeteHegseth for removing a child predator’s name from a Navy ship. pic.twitter.com/IHrHzdtxvb

— Carmine Sabia (@CarmineSabia)

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