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Summary: A true story
Review: I got through this book in only two days, and I wish I had known of this book when I started to come out to my environment about one year ago. Actually I am still closeted towards my father and I think I am still not ready to tell him - even after reading this book. But I finally know that I will tell him one day; I first never wanted to tell him. For all you young gays/lesbians out there, I highly recommend this book to you. I think I could have had it much more easier the last year if I had owned it.
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Summary: A great guide for young homosexuals and their families!!
Review: I think this book can help a lot for gays/lesbians and their families.It's not an easy step to go and tell your family that you are gay. But it's GREAT if things are "clear" and when you feel that it's accepted or at least that you've been true.You'll wonder how many people are able to accept it and what pride it gives you anyway! Be courageous and go for your aims!
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Summary: Much-needed Resource and Guide
Review: It is a shame that this book, along with Betty DeGeneres' "Love, Ellen" book, weren't available 20-30 years ago. These books could have saved thousands of gays and lesbians and their parents much pain and anguish. Coming out is never easy, but this book and Betty's can help to serve as a great starting point. Chastity talks about her own coming-out process; most importantly, she includes coming-out testimonies from ordinary, every-day folks. Sensitively written, this book is a valuable tool. To those who cannot bring themselves to disclose, buy this book for help and guidance. To those who cannot bring themselves to accept, buy this book (and Betty's too), and become enlightened.
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Summary: A wonderful resource
Review: The tears that rolled down my cheeks as I read through this book were a reminder to me that I was certainly not alone when it came to "outing" myself to friends and family. Because this comes straight from real life experiences, you take the ride with Chastity and those amazing people she spoke to throughout her book and read about their various experiences in "coming out". I know that many people of all ages who have or are going to "come out" should at least try to read this amazing book because believe me, it made me a lot wiser, stronger and confident and finally telling my family and friends that I was a lesbian not only became easier but gave me a real sence of freedom to finally be me.
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Summary: I was reading about my own life
Review: The tears that rolled down my cheeks as I read through this book were a reminder to me that I was certainly not alone when it came to "outing" myself to friends and family. Because this comes straight from real life experiences, you take the ride with Chastity and those amazing people she spoke to throughout her book and read about their various experiences in "coming out". I know that many people of all ages who have or are going to "come out" should at least try to read this amazing book because believe me, it made me a lot wiser, stronger and confident and finally telling my family and friends that I was a lesbian not only became easier but gave me a real sence of freedom to finally be me.
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Summary: I was reading about my own life
Review: The tears that rolled down my cheeks as I read through this book were a reminder to me that I was certainly not alone when it came to "outing" myself to friends and family. Because this comes straight from real life experiences, you take the ride with Chastity and those amazing people she spoke to throughout her book and read about their various experiences in "coming out". I know that many people of all ages who have or are going to "come out" should at least try to read this amazing book because believe me, it made me a lot wiser, stronger and confident and finally telling my family and friends that I was a lesbian not only became easier but gave me a real sence of freedom to finally be me.
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Summary: What a Crock!!!
Review: The thesis is, "Yeah, for us and boo to our enemies". Enemies meaning anybody who does not embrace or accept a homosexual lifestyle. Most readers will have to be fanatical Cher fans because becuause this book won't do most gays any good. Or anybody else. The dichotomy between Cher's hobnobing with open gays, one of her old boyfriends, David Geffen, came out out of the closet, and her fight against Chastity's emerging lesbianism adds most of the emotional tension. Cher also adds complexity to mix by recent admissions of her own lesbian affairs. Was she trying to protect her daughter, her own views of how her daughter should be or her own career? Any bets? Sonny on the other hand, dominating enslaving Sonny, the monster of Cher's past who ruled her career and/or life, comes off as a warm caring sensitive father. I have to admit that if my daughter told me what Chastity told him that I would have a hard time matching the love of his response. Hard core Cher fans be warned!!! Cher comes off nothing like the image she has produced. She does come across as a human being. As for everybody else, get this book from the library.
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Summary: This book is so inspiring
Review: This book is great to help those deal with their sexual identity, self image, coming out, etc... GREAT BOOK
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Summary: A good guide, and bio but
Review: This is a good "double" book--a coming out guide and a biography of Chastity Bono in one. Written in a straight-forward, clear manner and peppered with interviews from other out gays and lesbians, "Family Outing" is ultimately eye-opening and supportive.However, I didn't give it five stars because it was often repetitive (i.e. a blurb about denying oneself, then a section of interviews from people who denied their true selves, then Bono's account of how she denied what she really was, and then a section reiterating why you shouldn't deny who you really are) and I would have liked to learn more about Bono's life in addition to her struggles coming out of the closet. (But I guess there's more of her life in her other book, The End of Innocence? I guess I'll have to check that one out).
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Summary: AN EXCELLENT BOOK FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS A GAY FAMILY MEMBER!!
Review: This is by far one of the best books I have read yet about people's coming out stories and what they went through. Chastity Bono is right when she says that coming out is really a family process. Everyone in the family is affected in one way or another, in both good ways or bad, and this process needs to be tackled as a family. No one should ever go through it alone! I definitely reccommend this book to anyone who is questionion their sexuality or whether they should come out of the closet or not!
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