CRISIS: Bradford Wells, Gay San Franciscan, Fighting Against Husband's Deportation, Taken To Hospital!

This week, Bradford Wells, a gay San Franciscan, has been waging a last-minute effort to save his Australian husband, Anthony Makk, from having to leave the country on Monday. Things got much worse, reports SF Weekly.

"Bradford just had another heart attack (Actually it wasn't) and I'm on the way to the emergency room, and I really do have to go," said Anthony Makk when we called him this morning to interview him about his immigration case. Steve Ralls, a spokesman for Immigration Equality, a non-profit that is advising the couple in their immigration case, says they have not confirmed the heart attack.

"My understanding is he was at the bank to pick up some documents, and they informed Anthony they called an ambulance to take him to the hospital," says Ralls. "They are under an incredible amount of stress at the moment." 

Makk, an Australian national, and Bradford Wells have lived together for 19 years in a Castro apartment, and married seven years ago in Massachusetts. Makk faces having to leave the country on Monday when his current stay in the United States expires. The couple plan to file Monday for a last-minute spouse visa and is asking California senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer as well as Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi to intervene to save Makk from having to leave. Wells is HIV-positive and recently had suffered a heart attack, and Makk is his primary caretaker. 

  

Ralls later e-mailed SF Weekly to say that Wells did not have a heart attack.

"I just received an update, and Bradford is back home from the hospital, and resting.  He did not have a heart attack, but has been experiencing chest pains and shortness of breath throughout the week. Both, apparently, intensified this afternoon, and he was taken to the hospital as a pre-caution.