Sorry, but tickets are tickets...
My husband and I once worked as doctors at the same institution...so we could not take vacations together (or we would leave the place short staffed, since we only had 6 docs working)...so I usually went with a girlfriend...
If he was given a reward, the friend he takes with him should not matter...
These were not "tickets as tickets" this were some form of promotion.
I have used frequent flyer miles to have tickets directly issued in the other person's name.
There is more to this story.
It is also important to remember that most all these airlines have been seriously curtailing freebie friends and families. At some point, as long as you just were friendly with an airline employee they could do something for you. (free upgrade if not a freebie)
Sorry but these homosexuals need to realize that one man playing iwth another man's penis does not make them special, it just makes them deviant.
So, who makes the chicken soup?