Chaz Bono

At 55 years old, Chaz Bono has this physical status:

Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969) is an American writer, singer, and actor.

Sonny Bono and Cher.Bono's parents are trans people.

In 1995, when still identifying as a woman and several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he openly declared himself as a lesbian in a front page in a leading gay monthly newspaper, The Advocate, then going on to explore the process of being out to oneself and to others in two books.

A guide to the coming out process for gays, Lesbians, and Their Families (1998) includes his coming-out story.

The memoir Innocence (2003) explores his death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, as well as his music career.

His transition had begun a year earlier, according to a two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009.

He legally changed his gender and name in May 2010.

At the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Bono's life, Becoming Chaz, was shown on television and later became part of the Oprah Winfrey Network, a documentary about Bono's experience.

Early life

Bono was born in Los Angeles, California, and was the only child of Cher and Sonny Bono of the pop duo Sonny & Cher, stars of a television variety show on which the young child appeared often. Bono was born after Sonny's film Chastity, in which Cher (in her first solo role in a film) played a bisexual woman.

In New York City, Bono was enrolled at the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. Bono was born as a lesbian at the age of 18 and shocked both parents as a lesbian. "I always felt there was something different about me as a child," Bono wrote in Family Outing. I'd like to look at other girls of my age and wonder at their apparent obsession with the latest fashion, which boy in class was the cutest, and who seemed most like cover girl Christie Brinkley. When I was 13, I finally found a name for me specifically how I was different. "I knew I was gay," I thought.

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