Bert Leatherman This is Me

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1. 1. Washington Blade Online

   www.washblade.com/2005/12-9/ne - [Cached]

   Published on: 12/13/2005   Last Visited: 12/14/2005

   New York University students Lori Rifkin, Bess Kennedy, Luis Ramirez and Bert Leatherman traveled to D.C. to hear arguments in the case FAIR vs.

2. 2. The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Protesters Clash Outside High Court

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   Published on: 12/7/2005   Last Visited: 5/13/2006

   A student at the New York University School of Law, Bert Leatherman, stood in line as protesters chanted slogans over his head.
   
   Leatherman, who interviewed for the Judge Advocate General Corps despite the fact that he is gay, said that he was personally distraught by the fact that he will not be able to carry on his family's long tradition of military service.
   
   "My dad and my uncle went to West Point, my granddad was in the Navy, and my other granddad went to a military academy. But I don't have the opportunities that they were able to have," he said.
   
   Leatherman said the fact that Rumsfeld v. FAIR does not directly address the Pentagon's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which forbids open homosexuals from serving in the military, makes the case insignificant to the larger goals of the gay rights movement.
   
   "If we lose today, it's no big deal. The bigger question is whether it's constitutional and whether it's American to deny gay people the same opportunities that our straight peers have," he said.

3. 3. Freedom To Marry

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   Published on: 7/15/1989   Last Visited: 4/27/2005

   1 Thanks to NYU law student, Bert Leatherman, for his helpful and quick research, enabling me to invoke for this tribute the best source, Mary Dunlap's own words in poetry and prose.