Chasty Bono, the child of Cher and Sonny Bono, has started the procs of beg a transgenr dividual. A rep for the gay rights advote and wrer...
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In the 1980s, Palm Sprgs gay history began to add new chapters even though the cy was still known for agg movie stars and sprg break shenanigans. * was sonny bono gay *
Liberace spent his last days cuddlg his dogs and watchg rens of The Goln Girls, acrdg to thor David Wallace, whose book, A Cy Com Out, tails the gay and lbian history of Palm Sprgs and s nnectns to Hollywood.
But on the outskirts of town, gay life was thrivg. “Establishments tried to outdo each other wh special events, ” rells Jim Suguan, former owner and edor of The Bottom Le, a ee newspaper that vered the lol gay nightlife scene.
Chasty Bono, gay-rights activist and child of performer Cher and the late entertaer and polician Sonny Bono, is the early stag of transng om a female to a male and will be known as Chaz, his spokman said Thursday. * was sonny bono gay *
“The gay muny was not anized and didn’t realize s potential yet. Yet jt a few blocks away, hotel owner Fred Hardt created a lol stir that ma natnal news when he announced he was nvertg his clothg-optnal P Wt Rort to a hospice for gay men afflicted wh HIV.
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Mayor Frank Bogert, whose wboy persona chafed agast the creasgly vol gay muny, feared the publicy would hurt the town’s image, claimg “The whole world has got the ia that this is the place to e get AIDS, ” acrdg to a UPI report. Throughout the natn “culture wars” were heatg up, wh hard-le fundamentalist Christians pted agast gays and lbians termed to live more hont and open liv. Bono’s electn hered an acceptance but not outright openns of the cy’s unniable gay populatn.