Chaz Salvatore Bono (born Chastity Sun Bono, March 4, 1969) is an American advocate, writer, musician and actor. He is the only child of American entertainers Sonny and Cher.Bono is a transgender man. In 1995, several years after being outed as lesbian by the tabloid press, he publicly self-identified as such in a cover story in a leading American gay monthly magazine, The Advocate, eventually going on to discuss the process of coming out to oneself and to others in two books.