Family Outing.
Bono, Chastity; Fitzpatrick, Billie.
Place Published: Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.:
Publisher: Little Brown & Co.,
Date Published: 1998.
Description: STATED FIRST EDITION, SECOND PRINTING. 259 pages. The book and dust jacket are FINE/AS NEW (unread). Comes with BRODART jacket cover. JMVINTAGE specializes with Books, Magazines and Treasures related to the Duke and Duchess of Windsor and..other curious people. "FROM CHASTITY BONO, DAUGHTER OF SONNY AND CHER, HEROINE OFTHE GAY COMMUNITY: THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE NARRATIVE GUIDE TO THE COMING-OUT PROCESS FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GAYS AND LESBIANS AND THEIR PARENTS. Chastity Bono grew up in the spotlight cast on her parents. But nothing could have prepared her for the events of December 1900, when the tabloid newspaper Star outed her to the world. At the time only her close friends and family knew she was gay; after the shock of that public revelation, Chastity retreated back into the closet. Coming out to her family had been difficult enough: although her father had been supportive and accepting, her mother reacted with shock and anger, as many parents do. After the Star outing, it would be another five years until Chastity would decide, with her parents' blessing, to come out publicly on her own terms-and to unexpected acclaim-on the cover of The Advocate. In Family Outing Chastity weaves her own dramatic story into those of other gays and lesbians to illustrate the phases, pitfalls, and rewards of coming out. We hear how gays and lesbians often feel indescribably "different" when they are quite young, how they come to recognize and explore that difference in themselves and then deal, in various ways, with parents' reactions, those of friends and coworkers, and their own unearthed homophobia. Ultimately, we learn how enormously empowering the whole process can be. While Family Outing provides sensible, helpful advice to gays and lesbians who are thinking about coming out, it is also an important primer for parents. We hear parents talk about their difficult-but ultimately successful and satisfying-journey through their part of the coming-out experience. And in conversations with Chastity, Cher tells her side of the story, relating her suspicion, denial, confrontation, and eventual acceptance of her daughter's sexual orientation. For, as Chastity says, 'Parents come out too.'"
Edition: First editionBinding: Hard Back
Condition: Fine in Fine dj
ISBN: 0316102334
Book Id: 6626
Price: $13.00
