Safe Schools Coalition and our son Bill were mentioned in this report: On Friday, in a hearing before the Idaho Senate State Affairs Committee, Senators Nicole LeFavour (D-Boise) and Charles Coiner (R-Twin Falls) introduced legislation prohibiting employment, housing and education discrimination based on an individual’s real or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. The bill …
Yesterday Alec and I were talking to a friend about living with children who are at the young toddler age, and we remembered Bill when we were living in the upstairs of the big blue house in Hattiesburg Mississippi. I think Noel was about two and a half or so and Bill was a little …
If he were still alive Bill would be 30 years old today. Wow. That birthday was 10,957 days ago. We had him with us for 6375 days.And then he committed suicide 12 years, 6 months, 15 days ago.So now we have been living without him for 4582 days. Maybe doing numbers on this is a …
Here is something I wrote in September 2001: I want to recognize that this is a time when we all are aware of the vulnerability of our country and our people after the attacks on the east coast. I have been reading about people feeling that those acts of terror have stripped away the sense …
Stonewall Youth’s speaker’s panel spoke about bullying at Washington Middle School in Olympia on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Alec and I attended a school board meeting on Monday, July 11, 2007, along with youth from Stonewall, members of PFLAG and other folks in the community. This letter to the editor was published as a Letters …
Photos are posted now on the ClaytonWorks flicker site of when the Imagine Piano was in Olympia on May 8th. See http://www.flickr.com/photos/claytonworks/ To see more about the Imagine Piano Peace Project in Olympia, on this page scroll down to Labels in the green column on the right and click on Lennon Piano. Then read from …
An email I woke to this morning: Subject: Your son.Date: Sat, 16 Jun 2007 05:55:33 -0400From: grottingham02@aol.comTo: gabi@gabiclayton.com Dear Gabi, I am a 16 year old boy from the Bay Area, California. I think you should know that your son deserved to die and in the fashion that it occurred. Being “gay” or “bisexual” is …
On Saturday, May 26, 2007 Steve Schalchlin wrote in his blog Although I posted a music video of the Lennon Piano visit to the Clayton’s home in Olympia previously, I hadn’t, until now, edited the actual video diary footage. Finally, today, after giving myself a little distance from it, began putting it together. Here is …
Steve Schalchlin wrote: John Lennon’s IMAGINE piano tour visited the home of Bill Clayton, a teenager who committed suicide after a gaybashing. I was invited to sing and play for the event. This video is my personal reflection of what happened. and: I woke up at 1:30 in the morning, went up to my studio …