Chaz Bono
Contestant, TV Producer
1969 –
Who is Chaz Bono?
Chaz Salvatore Bono is an American advocate, writer, and musician. He is the only child of American entertainers Sonny and Cher, though each had children from other relationships.
Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-identified as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate, eventually going on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books. Family Outing: A Guide to the Coming Out Process for Gays, Lesbians, and Their Families includes his coming out account. The memoir The End of Innocence discusses his outing, music career, and partner Joan's death from non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
Between 2008 and 2010, Bono underwent female-to-male gender transition. A two-part Entertainment Tonight feature in June 2009 explained that his transition had started a year before. In May 2010, he legally changed his gender and name. A documentary on Bono's experience, Becoming Chaz, was screened at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and later made its television debut on OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.
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- Born
- Mar 4, 1969
Los Angeles - Also known as
- Chastity Bono
- Bono, Chastity
- Chastity Sun Bono
- Chaz
- Chaz Salvatore Bono
- Chazz Bono
- Parents
- Siblings
- Ethnicity
- Armenian American
- Italian American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School
- New York University
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on July 23, 2013
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