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  Interview | Chastity Bono
In this book, Chastity presents a memoir of what was probably the most difficult period in her life to date.
Aside from constantly being hounded by tabloids, Bono was trying to establish her own career as a musician with her then-girlfriend, Rachel.
When their band Ceremony, finally began to receive the results they had worked so hard for, Chastity fell in love with Joan, who was not only 23 years her senior but also a friend of her mother's.
www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/cbono.html   (3767 words)

  
  Chastity Bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chastity Bono (born March 4, 1969) is an American actress as well as advocate for human rights and gay rights.
In particular she stated that the show was "too gay." This lead to speculation that Bono was a self-loathing lesbian, something she has since vehemently denied.
In her memoir Family Outing, Bono surprised many when she revealed that when she told her mother that she was a lesbian, Cher was quite uncomfortable with the news.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chastity_Bono   (304 words)

  
 Sonny Bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bono and Cher had a daughter, Chastity Bono in 1969.
Bono married Susie Coelho, but divorced her in 1984; he married again in 1986 to the much younger Mary Whitaker.
A distraught Cher gave a tearful eulogy at Bono's funeral, after which the attendees sang the song "The Beat Goes On." His final resting place is Desert Memorial Park in nearby Cathedral City, California, the same cemetery in which Frank Sinatra was laid to rest later that same year.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sonny_Bono   (718 words)

  
 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Chastity Bono
Chastity Bono (born March 4, 1969) is a human rights and gay rights advocate.
Though she was outed by the Star in January 1990, Bono is now openly lesbian has appeared in various national publications, including on the covers of Out and The Advocate magazines.
Bono came under fire by the gay community when she made comments about the television show Ellen, starring openly lesbian comedienne Ellen Degeneres.
www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Chastity_Bono   (197 words)

  
 LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth - October 16, 1998 - Chastity Bono
For Chastity Bono, daughter of America’s sweetheart couple of the ‘60s, Sonny and Cher, coming out under public scrutiny was not the most exciting prospect.
The bottom line, for Bono, as well as for many whose stories she has heard, is that she has gone through the whole coming out process and has no doubts that she is much better off for having taken the risks.
Bono, who is "always kind of surprised by her celebrity [status], was "able to turn that into something positive through her tenure with the Advocate, the Human Rights Campaign Fund, as Media Director for the Gay and Lesbian Defamation League, and now with Family Outing.
www.camprehoboth.com /issue10-16-98/bono.htm   (1066 words)

  
 Knitting Circle Chastity Bono   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
When Chastity Bono was 20 in 1990 she was outed by the tabloid newspaper, the Star, but publicly she denied that she was gay.
In 1993 Chastity Bono released an album with her band Ceremony, but it was not successful and the band was dropped from its record label.
Chastity Bono (daughter of Cher and Sonny) interweaves the story of her own experience with her parents with those of many others, offering practical advice on seeing yourself as normal (parents and kids alike).
myweb.lsbu.ac.uk /~stafflag/chastitybono.html   (1283 words)

  
 CNN - Chastity Bono opens up about coming out - October 14, 1998
ATLANTA (CNN) -- When Chastity Bono's homosexuality was divulged to the world by a tabloid in 1990, she felt publicly crucified and called the outing "terrifying." Eight years later, with her book "Family Outing," she set out to make the coming out process a healthier, less agonizing one for other gay youth and their families.
Bono doesn't rule out running for public office herself, but said with a laugh that she wouldn't be in the GOP like Sonny and Mary Bono.
Bono urges activists and media to recognize a fine balance between the need for gay role models and the obligation to respect celebrities' privacy.
www.cnn.com /books/news/9810/14/bono.out.cnn   (965 words)

  
 Sonny Bono page in Fuller Up, Dead Musician Directory
Bono's death came less than a week after Michael Kennedy, the 39-year-old son of Robert F. Kennedy, was killed when he hit a tree while playing football on a ski slope in Aspen, Colo. Michael Kennedy's uncle, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., said his family was "heartbroken" at Bono's death.
Bono was elected mayor in 1988 and served until 1992, when he ran unsuccessfully in the California Republican primary for a seat in the U.S. Senate that was eventually won by Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat.
Bono divorced his first wife, Donna, shortly after he met Cher, but the two were not married until years later, after the birth of their daughter, Chastity.
elvispelvis.com /bono.htm   (2092 words)

  
 GLAAD: Chastity Bono to Direct GLAAD's Entertainment Industry Relations
Chastity Bono is accustomed to being in the limelight.
Bono became acutely aware of the other side of the entertainment industry: a 1990 Star Magazine cover story proclaimed Chastity's sexual orientation, "outing" her as a lesbian.
Chastity Bono is keenly aware of the importance of unbiased media representation of lesbians and gay men.
www.glaad.org /media/archive_detail.php?id=185&   (637 words)

  
 CNN - Family, friends, colleagues mourn Sonny Bono - January 6, 1998
Bono was later a restaurateur before becoming mayor of Palm Springs, California, and then a Republican congressman from the same area.
Chastity Bono, Bono and Cher's daughter and media spokeswoman for GLAAD, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, left Los Angeles for Palm Springs to be with other family members.
Bono was a "wonderful songwriter and master showman (who became a) "master politician.
www.cnn.com /US/9801/06/bono.reax.pm   (1139 words)

  
 Pro Bono Attorneys   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
In 2002, Bono, who had a Roman Catholic father and a Protestant mother and was raised in his mother's faith, wrote the introduction to the "Book of Psalms", one of nine books of the Bible published individually in Canongate Book's ''"Pocket Canons"'' series.
Bono appears in the 2002 List of "100 Greatest Britons" (sponsored by the BBC, voted for by the public and which included Irish people), alongside such other greats as such as Sir Winston Churchill, Diana, Princess of Wales, and Queen Elizabeth I of England.
Bono married Susie Coelho and divorced her in 1984; he married again in 1986 to Mary Whitaker.
www.wwwtln.com /finance/149/pro-bono-attorneys.html   (1828 words)

  
 Salon Books | Family Outing
The toddler Chastity, who made regular appearances on her parents' TV show (and apparently still gets residuals from them), was the little blond buffer between the dark and smoldering Cher and the dark and dimwitted Sonny, one of the most humiliated men on television.
Chastity weaves her own story around conversations with other gay men and women in an effort to give a true picture of, and some helpful hints about, the perils of coming out.
A fl heart would be tempted to tell Bono that, when her mother looked askance at her clothes when she was growing up, she may have been horrified by something other than lesbianism.
archive.salon.com /books/sneaks/1998/10/12sneaks.html   (606 words)

  
 Gay Today at Badpuppy
Chastity Bono is, it seems, a peacemaker, one who serves to unite her communities, especially Hollywood, with a brand of forthrightness her famous mother and father can't help but notice.
Chastity's resolve bloomed in her understanding that she'd been called to a greater struggle, one in which the nation's cultural playground, the entertainment industry, would be her battlefield, one where her "weapons" would cause peace, not war.
The contexts in which Chastity emerges as she works with GLAAD, improving communications across little-known worlds, changing for the better the ways in which we humans see ourselves, is as good as it gets.
gaytoday.badpuppy.com /garchive/people/120197pe.htm   (653 words)

  
 Chastity considers running for office
Bono, the daughter of the late Sonny Bono and Cher, said her tenure as media director for the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation taught her that she's definitely not cut out to be an executive director.
Bono's half-sister Christy urged Sonny to call Chastity and talk to her about it but he died before he got the chance.
Bono says she knows he would have called her because "...medium James Van Praagh did a reading with my mother recently and one of the things he said to her was that my dad said, "I wish I listened to Christy.
www.recordonline.com /1998/10/01/apchasti.htm   (215 words)

  
 Sonny Bono death
Bono, like Kennedy, was an avid skier and was on vacation with his family when the accident occurred.
Despite his political career, Bono will always be best known for his singing career as part of the Sonny and Cher rock and roll stars in the 1960's and 'The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour' in the 1970's.
Bono was convinced his songwriting and her voice would make them big.
www.skistreak.com /deaths/SonnyBono.html   (423 words)

  
 Cher's daughter urges gays to `come out'   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
At 27, Bono is far removed from the time she was a toddler featured on her parents' TV variety show in the early 1970s.
When she was 18, Bono told her dad about her sexual orientation, but she hid it from her mother, who only learned by asking Sonny Bono.
Bono abandoned the idea of a singing career after her band released one album in 1993.
www.chron.com /content/chronicle/features/96/11/19/chastity.0-0.html   (911 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
The last time Chastity Bono was in Hawaii she and her girlfriend took a sick bird to the East Maui Animal Refuge and ended up adopting a cat which they named Kihei.
Bono still doesn't know exactly what she'll talk about, except "probably" it will include a pep talk urging Hawaii's gay and lesbian community to become more active in getting same-sex marriage legislation passed, and that involves "educating fair-minded" heterosexuals about the volatile issue.
Bono maintained a steady relationship with her female partner, but the couple was forced to live "with the blinds closed."
starbulletin.com /97/08/12/features/story2.html   (929 words)

  
 Reading Book Reviews... : Out in America   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Bono shares her growing awareness of her sexuality, while living in New York City where her mother, Cher, was performing on Broadway in Come Back to the 5 and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean.
The young Chastity, who at this point is disillusioned with the recording industry and emotionally drained from the process of making an unsuccessful album, happily takes on the role of primary caregiver for the very seriously ill Joan.
As the older woman’s health quickly erodes, Chastity falls into prescription drug addiction in an attempt to cope with the burdens and difficulties she is shouldering.
www.outinamerica.com /arts/books.asp?article=662   (1349 words)

  
 Gay Activist Chastity Bono to Lecture at Holy Cross | College of the Holy Cross
Chastity Bono is a writer and former spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign, a national lesbian and gay political organization.
Bono's lecture is part of Rainbow Alliance Week at Holy Cross, designed to raise awareness about gay, lesbian and bisexual issues at the College.
Bono was born in 1969 to the pop singing duo Sonny and Cher.
www.holycross.edu /publicaffairs/features/2000-2001/nf001013   (304 words)

  
 BookPage Nonfiction Review: Family Outing
Bono and her co-author, Billie Fitzpatrick, anticipated this problem and solved it by interviewing other gay men and lesbians and their parents and including the coming-out stories of these less notorious, more accessible people.
Bono expands the definition of coming out to mean a series of adjustments that parents of lesbians and gays, as well as lesbians and gays themselves, have to go through.
Chastity Bono and Cher are scheduled to appear together on Oprah, Dateline NBC, and Good Morning America.
www.bookpage.com /allencolibrary/9810bp/nonfiction/family_outing.html   (417 words)

  
 Concerned Women for America - Chastity Bono: Another Created Lesbian
A new book by Chastity Bono, the openly lesbian daughter of the singing couple “Sonny and Cher,”; provides the latest evidence that homosexuality is rooted in dysfunctional households and seduction/recruitment — not genetics.
The now-deceased Joan (to whom Bono dedicated her book) was a close friend of Cher, who as a star was often absent from the home.
Chastity, 33, writes that she was 18 at the time of her first sexual encounter with Joan.
www.cwfa.org /articledisplay.asp?id=624&department=cfi&categoryid=cfreport   (725 words)

  
 The Books: Family Outing by Billie Fitzpatrick and Chastity Bono   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
rom Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny and Cher, heroine of the gay community: the first comprehensive narrative guide to the coming-out process from the perspective of gays and lesbians and their parents.
Chastity Bono grew up in the spotlight cast on her parents.
We hear how gays and lesbians often feel indescribably "different" when they are quite young, how they come to recognize and explore that difference in themselves and then deal, in various ways, with parents' reactions, those of friends and coworkers, and their own unearthed homophobia.
www.twbookmark.com /books/28/0316102334   (378 words)

  
 Chastity Bono Interview - In the Spotlight - AMBUSH Mag 2000
Bono was settled in a ground floor suite at the grand and historic Claiborne Mansion on Dauphine Street.
Bono was on the telephone when I arrived and the owner of the Claiborne Mansion, the charming and very perceptive Ms.
Chastity Bono is now as famous as her parents and consequently as an openly gay member of our tribe, she has dedicated her life to advocating our causes via her work with the Human Rights Campaign, and as a contributing writer for the Advocate Magazine, a national gay publication.
www.ambushmag.com /spot17.htm   (3099 words)

  
 Chastity Bono
Chastity Bono is the author of FAMILY OUTING, a collection of coming-out stories, including her own, and suggestions.
As a child, Bono appeared regularly with her parents on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour." A graduate of New York's High School of Performing Arts, she attended New York University, Tisch School of the Arts film program.
In 1990, she left NYU to pursue a career in the music industry, and founded the band Ceremony as its singer, songwriter and percussionist.
www.chelseaforum.com /speakers/Bono.htm   (320 words)

  
 Books: Gay Parade (Tucson Weekly . 10-05-98)
But according to Chastity Bono, "outing" oneself is rewarding and empowering for both homosexuals and their families.
Bono began to notice she was different from female classmates in grade school; even mom Cher had suspicions that something was divergent about her daughter.
Bono is living proof one can succeed in life and establish fulfilling relationships, regardless of sexual preference.
weeklywire.com /ww/10-05-98/tw_book1.html   (912 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
BONO: Well, I mean, I think the media is the one who's making a very big deal out of it.
FALWELL: But, I think when it is presented, as Chastity just said, in a very favorable light, and as something that is wholesome and good and alternative life-style, I think we tempt children to experiment and to go after something that they normally would not...
BONO: Well, I mean I think that the J.C. Penney one was very interesting because, up until this point, no advertisers have even seen the episode to be able to make a decision whether or not they will be advertising on it.
www.auntieteck.com /archive/research/ellen1.txt   (3487 words)

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