The Region - News from Nov. 25, 1985
An Australian homosexual who lost a 10-year fight to remain in the United States left the country with the Hollywood man he “married” nine years ago. Australian Anthony Sullivan and Richard Adams, their appeal to President Reagan for intervention on a deportation order unanswered, boarded a London-bound flight at Los Angeles International Airport. They vowed to return some day. Sullivan, 43, who came to the United States on a temporary visa, and Adams, 38, maintained that their civil marriage by a city clerk in Boulder, Colo., in 1975 qualified Sullivan for permanent residency as the spouse of a U.S. citizen. Adams earlier said that he and Sullivan would stay two weeks in England, then travel to Scandinavia, Greece, the Middle East and Asia in their search for a country that will accept them as residents.
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