The State - News from Aug. 16, 1987

Gay rights advocate Leonard Matlovich said he was turned away from the Northwest Airlines ticket counter at San Francisco International Airport because he has AIDS. Matlovich, who gained national attention by taking the Air Force to court after it discharged him for being homosexual, said he was wearing a T-shirt that said, “I’m a human with AIDS” when he came to the airport counter to check out reports that the airline would not accept people with AIDS or AIDS-related complex as passengers. Matlovich said a Northwest ticket agent told him he could fly--but only after he showed a doctor’s release stating he was not “contagious.”