The State - News from April 1, 1987

A judge in Chicago approved an agreement between a homosexual father living in California and his former wife to allow their daughters to visit their father during the summer, despite the mother’s earlier concerns about acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Benjamin Schatz, director of the AIDS Civil Rights Project of the National Gay Rights Advocates, said that the couple, known in court documents as John and Susan Doe for protection of the children, divorced in 1978 and that in 1983 the mother won a court order denying the father overnight visits with the children after she discovered that he was sleeping in his one-bedroom apartment with another man. American Civil Liberties Union spokesman Harvey Grossman said the settlement “acknowledges the value of John’s relationship with his children while rejecting irrational fears about AIDS transmission.”