Finally, we can say it out loud... MEET JANIS JOPLIN"S LESBIAN LOVER! I tried to talk about JJ shappic life and how different she was around women . with writers who were doing books about Janis but no one seemed to believe me. Met Jamis the first year we had both had moved to SF .. I was living at the Bachelors' Quarters at the corner of Broadway and Upper Grant and she was performing/working at a coffee shop two blocks up on Upper Grant,, we became fast friends. No one was famous yet! I remember seeing THAT performance at Monterey and then I was hired by Clive Daivs and he signed Big Brother, We became fast friends again. She called me from the street in front of the motel the day she died.