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The Reluctant Transgender Role Model

Started by Shana A, May 07, 2011, 06:09:07 AM

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Shana A

May 07, 2011, 06:09:07 AM
The Reluctant Transgender Role Model
By CINTRA WILSON
Published: May 6, 2011

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/fashion/08CHAZ.html

AT the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, I wheedled a ticket to "Becoming Chaz," a documentary about the sex change of Chastity Bono. Having long admired the Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato World of Wonder productions — slyly edu-taining films like "The Eyes of Tammy Faye" and oodles of just-louche-enough-for-reality-TV shows like "RuPaul's Drag Race" — I anticipated their usual mix of human interest, alternative lifestyle and salacious tabloid.

This unflinchingly personal film, which will have its premiere on Oprah Winfrey's network on Tuesday, details Chastity Bono's journey from her spangled childhood in rhinestone pantsuits on "The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour" to a more recent two years in her televised life: Chastity, now Chaz, invited cameras to witness the searingly intimate experience of his gender transition.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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