Guy Hunt, 32, of Issaquah, Wash., says he was fired as a Northwest Airlines pilot because he is a homosexual and he has filed a discrimination suit to get his job back. Northwest denies

there is any policy against hiring of homosexuals. Hunt said he was fired because he refused to take a physical regarding his use of a prescribed painkiller banned by the Federal Aviation Agency, but that was a pretext. Since his discharge, he says, he has formed the Gay Airline Pilots Association, which has seven members, all with Northwest. "The image pilots try to portray is that of a suave, male stud. They assume that gay pilots are a liability to that image," he told a news. confer-

ence.