Lee Clayton’s account of being hospitalised, sedated and almost undergoing brain surgery has inspired a storyline in a new play on at WorldPride
estimated that 15% of his patients who underwent the procedure, which he also described as a “treatment for sexual immaturity”, were homosexual.
Clayton believes she was probably at the hospital for around three weeks – she cannot recall exactly how long – but she says the experience left her with lifelong physical and psychological damage. She says that, about three times a week, the doctors would come to treat patients in the middle of the night. Clayton vividly recalls Bailey as a “strange character”, who was “very flamboyant” and “blustery” and always wore a monocle and “very loud” Hawaiian shirts.
by staff for brain surgery. “I heard them saying ‘Lee Clayton, we’re going to send her off to have a cingulo’. I thought, ‘No you’re not’. I had to get out of there.”escaped out the front door, which staff had kept unlocked for smoking breaks. She ran to a phone booth and rang a trusted doctor, who she says admitted her to a general hospital for safety.
Bailey killed himself in 1985. He appears as a character in Jamieson Brown’s play, which includes thequeer activists tipped a bucket of blood and sheep’s brains into the foyer of his Sydney practice.
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