From Chastity Bono, daughter of Sonny &amp; Cher, heroine of the gay community: the first comprehensive guide to the coming-out process from the perspective of both gays &amp; lesbians &amp; their parents.

Family Outing

Fitzpatrick, Billie

Bono, Chastity

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Little. Brown and Company

A self-help book for parents and teens-to-early-twenties on coming out. 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). This is a frank account of her own and others' rites of passage, and a clear case for the acknowledgement being a form of empowerment for herself and others, parent and child.

Little,Brown & Company

Chastity Bono has faced her share of battles as a spokesperson for gay and lesbian rights, both as the controversial former entertainment and media director for GLAAD, and before that in the early '90s when a national tabloid maliciously outed her. In this riveting memoir she recounts a story of love, commitment, and tragedy lived out beyond the glare of the cameras. At 23, Chastity was well on her way to establishing her own life separate from her superstar parents, Cher and Sonny Bono. Geffen Records had just signed her band, Ceremony, and she was poised for musical stardom. And best of all, a love affair began to blossom with Joan Stephens, one of Cher's friends whom Chastity had known all her life. In what began as an unlikely relationship, Chastity and Joan found and nurtured the sort of tender, loving partnership they had both been seeking. But Chastity's aspirations for a life in music were soon thwarted by internal struggles and record company machinations that threatened to destroy Ceremony. These problems, however, paled in comparison with the devastating news of Joan's diagnosis with life-threatening non-Hodgkins lymphoma. As Joan fiercely battled her illness, Chastity's musical career imploded. Chastity became both caretaker and lover, discovering a depth and beauty that intensified the feeling of loss as Joan succumbed to the ravages of cancer. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, Joan is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman.
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Chastity Bono is the former Entertainment and Media Director for GLAAD a former reporter at large for The Advocate. She is also the author of Family Outing. Michele Kort is a freelance writer whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self,

The End of Innocence: A Memoir

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Advocate Books

For the first time, Chastity Bono shares the moving story of her early adulthood: how her traumatic tabloid outing as the openly gay daughter of Sonny and Cher threatened her burgeoning musical career, and how her first true love was taken from her by cancer. At an early age, Chastity survived challenges many of us never face. A story of love won and lost, of dreams fulfilled and destroyed, The End of Innocence is a coming-of-age story that provides a deeply personal look into the private struggles of a very public and courageous woman.
Chastity Bono was first known as the daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher, when she made appearances on her parents' TV show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour. She established her own identity after coming out on the cover of The Advocate in 1995 and went on to become a reporter for the magazine. Since then, she's worked as the 1996 National Coming Out Project's spokesperson for the HRC. From 1997 to 1998, she was the Entertainment -Media Director for GLAAD. She is also the author of the bestselling Family Outing and continues to lecture around the country. 
Michele Kort is an award-winning journalist whose writing has appeared in the Los Angeles Times Magazine, L.A. Weekly, Shape, Redbook, Self and The Advocate. A Los Angeles resident, she is also the author of Soul Picnic: The Music and Passion of Laura Nyro.

Kort, Michele

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Family Outing

Family Outing

The End of Innocence: A Memoir

The End of Innocence: A Memoir