Why did the gays never take to Janis Jopl?Did she fall that unfortunate time perd between the cle of Judy Garland and the rise of Barbra Streisand and go unnoticed? The gays have embraced ...
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#BORNTHISDAY: GAY, ROCK & BLU IN, JANIS JOPL
It's 1987. At a gay bar Chigo. About 10 P.M. (Early by Wdy Cy standards.) A somewhat attractive straight du (he ma a pot to announce... * janis joplin gay *
He didn't spare an opportuny: boys he met hotels, micians he met at ftivals - that's how, durg the famo Monterey Pop, he slept wh Jimi Hendrix and, shortly after, had a wild night wh Jim Morrison at his hoe, while the wife of the lear of The Doors waed patiently the next room for them to fish, endurg the thunro screams of Jopl-, or directly slept wh groupmat, Hell's Angels, mels or even a backpacker wh whom cid at the R Janeiro rnival any se, her stable partners were girls, which is why her bgraphers mata that, tth, Janis was always gay: her longt relatnship, although termtent, was wh two women who were also a uple, Kim Chappell - prevly he had been a lover of sger-songwrer Joan Baez- and Peggy Caserta.
At a gay bar Chigo. Around two mut after, he followed the gay du out to the pat.
I mean, if he was to screwg famo chicks, then what was he dog a gay bar? And why was he g on to olr gay men? You say nothg good me of the first book, but certaly was a landmark for s pictn of Janis’s gay relatnship.
January 20, 1943- Janis Jopl: "You know you've got , if mak you feel good." An lible in of the 1960s, and a sort of Gay In too, Janis Jopl had affairs wh women, men, and Southern Comfort. She would cise the streets of Los Angel a groovy Porsche 365 Cabrlet that was * janis joplin gay *
” One girl said, “I read and I walked the livg room and said, ‘Mom and Dad, I’m gay and I’m gog to California. You say you don’t believe Janis was gay. I never saw Janis as a gay girl.
I’m gay, and lived a gay liftyle even then. It was very early for people to be as obvly gay as I was.
I mean, was jt me and my girliend Kim that were way out gay at that time and that place. And as much as her band, and her manager Albert Grossman, and her road manager John Cooke tried to protect her om [Caserta melodramatilly lowers her voice] the gay thg and the image that might project, certaly hasn’t hurt her legacy any.