Synopsis
What distinguishes this widely praised book from other coming-out guides is its focus on family. Drawing on her own experience coming out to her celebrity parents, Cher and Sonny Bono, as well as on the experiences of many other young people throughout the country, Chastity Bono describes the challenges and rewards of coming out -- for gays, lesbians, and their families.
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Review
Family Outing is two books in one: a memoir of Chastity Bono's experience coming out as a lesbian to her famous parents and a look at the difficulties and triumphs that are part of every uncloseted homosexual's family life, with narratives drawn from interviews with members of Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG). Sometimes the two projects work against each other, but for the most part, Bono is right in assuming that her story reflects something larger in the culture and that others' stories, in turn, bear on her own experience. Readers skimming for intimate details about the mother-daughter conflict between Cher and Chastity won't be disappointed by Bono's sensitively written account. For a long time, Cher overlooked the troubling evidence of her daughter's emerging sexual identity: "Instead, she focused on superficial issues that bothered her: my short hair, my mannish clothes, my weight." Their relationship deteriorated and it was Sonny to whom Chastity eventually confided; ironically, the father who offered immediate, warm acceptance of his daughter's lesbianism would later sponsor the "1996 Defense of Marriage Act" in the US House of Representatives. -- Regina Marler, Amazon.com
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A self-help book for parents and teens-to-early-twenties on coming out.
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Little Brown & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A., 1999
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ISBN 13: 9780316115964
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