100 Women We Love 2015

We are thrilled to present this year’s 100 Women We Love—an incredibly diverse group of out entertainers, athletes, artists, activists, business leaders and elected officials.

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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