Dandridge Featherstone Herring

Graduating from the United States Military Academy at West
Point in 1947, he subsequently served 20 years in the US
Army. He, along with his partner of 43 years, Joel Leenaars
(1935- ), was a member of one of San Francisco’s earliest
gay rights groups, the Society for Individual Rights. Hering
and Leenaars were founding members of the earliest known
gay boat club, San Francisco’s Barbary Coast Boating Club,
and Hering was also a member of Service Academy Gay &
Lesbian Alumni, and Knights Out, the association of gay
West Point graduates. R