The State - News from June 28, 1985

Sponsors of San Francisco’s annual “Lesbian-Gay Freedom Day Parade” said that immigration officials flouted a federal judge’s order by detaining the event’s grand marshal, a Mexican gay-rights activist, at San Francisco International Airport. Parade co-chair Konstantin Berlandt said organizers of Sunday’s event will go to San Jose today to seek a restraining order from U.S. District Judge Robert Aguilar, who ruled in 1982 that aliens could not be excluded on the basis of homosexuality. Berlandt said INS officials stopped Juan Jacobo Hernandez, 43, a playwright from Mexico City, at the airport Wednesday and told him he would be barred from the country because he is a self-proclaimed homosexual. Hernandez was allowed to stay in the country until Monday, when an INS hearing on the matter is scheduled. But Berlandt said a restraining order is needed to prohibit detention of any of the thousands of foreign homosexuals who Berlandt said are expected for the parade in San Francisco.