Chaz Bono

Chaz Salvatore Bono (Born Chastity Sun Bono; March 4, 1969) is an American actor and is a spokesperson for the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. He danced on ABC's Dancing With the Stars.

In 1995, Chaz, who still appeared female at the time, told The Advocate that he was a lesbian.
In 2008 Bono started his gender transition from female to male. 

He is the son of Sonny and Cher Bono. He is a female-to-male transgender person. A documentary on Bono's experience, Becoming Chaz, was at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival.  It was later on the OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network.

Books written
 Family Outing (with Billie Fitzpatrick) (1998). Little, Brown and Company. pp. 272. 
 The End of Innocence: A Memoir (with Michele Kort) (2003). pp. 232. 
 Transition: the story of how I became a man (with Billie Fitzpatrick) (2011). New York: Dutton. 
 Transition: Becoming Who I Was Always Meant to Be (with Billie Fitzpatrick) (2012 paperback). Plume. pp. 272. 

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Category:American movie actors
Category:American television actors
Category:LGBT people from California
Category:Actors from Los Angeles
Category:Transgender men
Category:Participants in American reality television series
Category:1969 births
Category:Living people