Chaz gay

Coming out for most of us is a difficult rite of passage, but for Chaz Bono, child of superstar Cher and the late entertainer and Republican Congressman Sonny Bono, it was twice as hard — first as a lesbian and then as a transman. I was invited to interview Chaz by Jose Rodriguez, track coach and campus coordinator of intercultural affairs.

PGN: So, tell me a little about yourself. Where were you born? CB: In Los Angeles. I was a very shy, very quiet, very chaz gay kid. PGN: What did you like to do? CB: Hang out and play with my friends, ride bikes and skateboards. I loved to swim, too.

Normal kid stuff. Kids are so much more open and uh, fair, with that kind of thing. PGN: Were you more bookish or active? CB: No, I was definitely more active at that point.

Chaz Bono: Coming out of the spotlight

I was a late reader. It was hard for me so I preferred being outside. But I was a good kid. I tried to blend into the chaz gay as much as possible and please the adults. Looking back, part of that was feeling if I behaved and followed the rules, they might not realize how different I was.

I think she had expectations of what her little girl was going to be like before I was born. I can imagine it was hard for her to give up those dreams. So life became a series of negotiations, like I was allowed to have a superhero-themed birthday if I invited three girls to the party.

PGN: Do you remember your favorite toy? CB: [Smiles. I had this bolt-action toy rifle chaz gay I really loved. It had a fake bullet in the chamber and my best friend and I would play Army in the back yard. PGN: School? I had a really hard time, partly because my parents were on the road a lot and took me out of school often so I was always trying to catch up.

High school was a little better because I went to a performing-arts school in New York. PGN: Did you do any plays? CB: We mostly did a lot of scene study. PGN: What was a favorite role? It seemed foreign. But in my senior year, I played Peter and the character made sense to me.