HINA CHOW
Up-and-coming entertainment mogul Hina Chow could never be considered a shrinking violet. For her big coming out moment, she stood on top of a crowded bar “and announced my gayness to my friends,” she laughs. They looked at her, like, duh. “I really wanted a bit more shock and awe-I guess I had been the last to find out!” The Denver resident spends half of her time in New York as the tour manager/driver/merch vendor for Lez Zeppelin, the all-female Led Zeppelin cover band. When not wrangling groupies for the popular act, Chow is the executive producer of Neal Cassady: The Denver Years, a critically acclaimed doc about the openly bisexual muse to Beat legends like Jack Kerouac (Cassady inspired the character Dean Moriarty in On the Road) and Allen Ginsberg (Cassady´s one-time lover). Directed by Heather Dalton, the film debuted last year at Denver´s Sie FilmCenter, and was named Best Colorado History Documentary by Westword, Denver´s influential arts and entertainment magazine. Chow is looking forward to screening the doc at the Beat Museum in San Francisco this June. -KL
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