caption years_active birth_place alias relatives name parents birth_date image article_title birth_name occupation
chaz bono , 2010 1972 -- present los angeles , california , u.s. chaz salvatore bono elijah grandmother -rrb- blue allman -lrb- half-brother -rrb- georgia holt -lrb- chaz bono cher sonny bono 04 march 1969 chaz bono square photo 1.jpg chaz bono
 chastity sun bono writer , musician , advocate , actor
chaz bono

chaz salvatore bono -lrb- born chastity sun bono , march 4 , 1969 -rrb- is an american advocate , writer , musician and actor .
he is the only child of american entertainers sonny and cher .
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 '' -lrb- 1998 -rrb- includes his coming out account .
the memoir `` the end of innocence '' -lrb- 2003 -rrb- 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 .
