She now attends events like the Gay Games in New York and wears gay pride jewelry.īut there's this matter of coming out in the Asian community that's a little trickier than carrying a sign at a pride event or wearing a T-shirt. Three years ago, she propped open the door by telling her friends and her family.
It's not that Chou, a graduate student at the University of Washington, locks herself inside the closet. It reads literally, 'A woman loves a woman.' Simple translation, she's a lesbian. It's got two lavender-colored Chinese characters between a heart.
Dao-liang Chou owns a black T-shirt, which she never wears in the International District.
