I watched the documentary when it came out and thought it was really good .... then i read the book, Ive got to say the book is really a whole lot better because it gives a more personally feeling to it like hes talking to you directly. the doc is should be coming to netflix soon and ill watch it again. i plan on trying to get my mom to watch it when it does I think that she might like it shes into the documentary stuff. She actually gave me the book as a late bday gift. didn't think she even was looking in to any of the stuff going on in our community but she was really jazzed to give it to me said that in her round about way she was answering my commin out letter.  Its really great that she took the time to think about getting this for me. she said that she even looked at reviews about it and preordered it. Shes got a lot going on right now she is being dragged through court with my brother's dad, they do this every few years but this is a bad one. It really makes me happy to have one parent on my side.

Any how I'm  rambling. the book and the doc were really great Chaz is really open through it and i recommend that you guys see it. if you have seen or read the book what do you think?

i just finished chaz's book and thought it was amazing. so spot on with what i've felt my whole life. i haven't seen the doc yet (no cable waiting for netflix) but my mom did and it was after watching it that she finally started using male pronouns. so yeah, definitely good stuff.

I didn't even know there was a documentary until my mum came to me one day and told me she was taping it. We watched it together. I didn't really like it though, I mean maybe it's just me but him being famous somehow made it really hard to relate. Like there were a lot of similarities like I don't really remember my childhood either, and it was pretty good, but at times it was very repetitive and just plain boring, I mean I don't think it needed to be 2 hours long. But of course that's just my opinion. I look forward to watching Buck Angel's much more.

Ill have to look for Buck Angel's, I havent been online much and I dont watch the news so I tend to find stuff out kinda late, yeah like I said the Doc was ok but the book was better. In the doc the did tend to repeat a bout half of it but in the book,beyond jumping around a bit, it doesnt repeat too much. when he did repeat in the book it was more along the lines of ... when i saw so and so agian i couldnt beleive that so and so looked so different, and then it would go on to retell what they looked like when he met them the first time around. so it was more of a refresher of who so and so was in case the reader wasnt following the book. my gf says she hates how much it jumps around tho.

k_tech: so glad that ur mom is using the right words now. i think its still gonna be a bit before mine does but this transition thing is still pretty new to her.

JayValentine: Yeah if it was gonna be 2 hours they didnt need to go over the same stuff over and over, there was a interveiw between Chaz and Rosie Odonald right after and they pretty much restated half of the stuff that was in the doc. the only different thing is that they took questions form callers and the audence members.

I think Buck Angel's is half way done being filmed. I heard they are interviewing other trans guys for the documentary too so it's not ALL about Buck.

Oh I missed the interview. Do you remember if the audience asked any unique questions or anything because if like you said it was pretty much all repeated I won't bother.

I've seen a few other transgender documentaries, so far Chaz's is in last of all them.

mostly the questions were about his experiance with being famous and going through the transition, it covered if he was going to get bottom surgery and how he felt about his rageing while on T. I tried looking for it online but i couldnt find it the closest that i got was finding a after clip on his website. but on his website he has all of his other interveiws.

I'm reading the book right now and enjoying it.

Transition: The Story of How I Became a Man (2011) - Chaz Bono * Amazon * WorldCat

Find it at your library!

I talked with my mom on thursday and I offered to let her read it and she said that she was going to be getting her own copy as soon as she could. It really amazes me that she is taking this so well becouse when I lived with her life was crazy between the two of us and I thought that she would dig her feet into the ground when I came out but she is handling this really well. go figure

On a related Chaz note, they had a feature on him in the Russian version of Heat magazine this week - I bought it just to read. Quite sad really, the headline was 'This isn't a man and woman walking together. Don't believe us? Read on!' and the whole article just kept referring to him as 'she' and a lesbian, and mentioning 'secret and drastic surgery'. Still, not hateful, more 'oh my god, look at this weird ass thing going on in America!'. I was quite surprised that the news about him reached over here.

Quote from: malinkibear on June 04, 2011, 12:52:22 PM
They had a feature on him in the Russian version of Heat magazine this week.

That makes me glad that I can't read Russian.

Moscow still bans pride parades.

Boston is celebrating its 41st Pride Parade next Saturday.
We usually get a good turn-out, about 500,000 people.
The mayor of Boston usually marches in it.

Quote from: Renate on June 04, 2011, 07:07:49 PM
That makes me glad that I can't read Russian.

Moscow still bans pride parades.

I know it does, and there's a big fuss every year about it. This year in the newspapers the general consensus was "sick freaks are trying to disrupt our good Orthodox lives". Oh well, Russia just needs time.

Some places do seem to be a little behind in aceptance. its frustrating. I want to go to parade, but Ive yet managed to make it to the one in LA. I almost went to a rally a few years ago, we were down at universal studios and planed to go afterwards, one of my friends was all for it when we set out that morning but come 5 she didnt want to do it any more she kept saying she was to tired to go. so we ended up coming home instead.