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Snopes Admits Harvey Milk Was a Predator, Defends Him Anyway
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/snopes-admits-harvey-milk-was-a-predator-defends-him-anyway-n4941868 (https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/07/18/snopes-admits-harvey-milk-was-a-predator-defends-him-anyway-n4941868)
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.
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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, “The most widely reported allegations stem from an account in a Milk biography that described a sexual relationship between Milk and a 16-year-old.” The outlet even admitted to an “inappropriate” relationship with a runaway of unspecified age.
Now, if Milk had been an R ...