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Chastity Sun Bono is the daughter of Sonny Bono and Cher, well-known as pop duo Sonny & Cher . She was named after the title of Cher`s first feature film, which had its première shortly before her birth in 1969.[1]
Bono recalls that she was a tomboy as a child, and when she made appearances with her parents on The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, she insisted on being dressed to match her father rather than her mother. She first identified herself as a lesbian when she saw the film Personal Best at the age of thirteen.[1] When she came out to her parents, her father was immediately supportive, while her mother went "ballistic for a few days" before beginning to accept the news.[2]
Chastity Bono`s relationship with her father, Sonny Bono, became strained after he took office as a Republican Congressman from California. The differences in their political views separated them, and the two had not spoken for more than a year when he died in a skiing accident in January 1998.[2]
Bono came out to her parents at age 18. 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 and "went ballistic for a few days." However, when she told her father, Sonny, he had no problem with it and was immediately supportive, despite being against gay marriage in his political views. Bono was outed as lesbian by the Star in January 1990. She was not ready to be out to the world, and denied the tabloid`s assertion. In April 1995, she voluntarily came out in an interview with The Advocate after a series of nonpublished meetings.
Biography Credit: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_Bono
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