Fact-Checking Website Snopes Admits Harvey Milk Was a Predator, Defends Him Anyway

PJ Media ^ | 07/18/2025 | Matt Margolis

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Last month, the Department of the Navy officially renamed the USNS Harvey Milk—a much-needed course correction that finally put an end to the disgraceful decision to honor a known sexual predator.

“This is not about political activists, unlike the previous administration. Instead, we’re renaming the ship after a United States Navy Congressional Medal of Honor recipient, as it should be,” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth explained. “People wanna be proud of the ship they’re sailing in, and so we’re renaming it after a chief, a Navy chief.”

The Navy has renamed the ship the USNS Oscar V. Peterson in honor of Chief Watertender Oscar Peterson, who heroically saved the USS Neosho during the Battle of the Coral Sea in 1942. Despite being gravely wounded in a Japanese attack that killed or injured his entire repair team, Peterson managed to shut the bulkhead stop valves himself, helping keep the ship afloat.

Democrats were, of course, outraged at the move, and debate over the decision followed suit, so much so that even Snopes decided to look into the allegations that Harvey Milk was a sexual predator — a fact we’ve been pointing out at PJ Media for years now.

Snopes sets the scene with the usual cautious language, doing somersaults to distance Milk from the worst allegations, but it can’t quite wriggle away from the facts that stared it right in the face. The core issue is unavoidably straightforward: Harvey Milk, gay rights icon and media-anointed hero, was a thirty-something man who engaged in sexual relationships with teenage boys — minors by any standard.

This isn’t some wild right-wing conspiracy; it’s a documented fact, even in sources that are sympathetic to Harvey Milk. Snopes itself reluctantly acknowledged,

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Yea, but he was OUR predator.

Satan is OUR angel.

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So, how does Snopes try to mitigate the fact that Milk was a sexual predator?

So it was statutory rape, but not actual pedophilia? OK go with that.
Ruining the lives of teenagers (not little children) by seducing them into being "gay".

Harvey Milk was honored because he was a sexual predator.
That is the caused he died for. Everything else is pretext.