“I was always doing music, you know, I always had a little record company and a recording studio. That was how I stayed present. I was always writing, but the music business was... so after Elektra Records, I just couldn’t, I couldn’t keep going as Josie Cotton. Like, I just, it was, you know, I really took a bullet for Johnny Are You Queer, honestly. I would do it again, I would say, because the feedback I’ve gotten from specifically gay men and all kinds of people, like, it’s all meant so much to them, you know, until they accepted the fact that they were gay, or just, I mean- I hear guys crying, like in the last summer of the 80s show I did. And so for me, it’s like, it makes it seem like it was important that song came out.”
Air date: 09/10/2026
Tune in as Poorman interviews Josie Cotton, American pop/rock singer, best known for "Johnny Are You Queer?" and "He Could Be the One" from 1982. "Johnny Are You Queer?" was used on the soundtracks to Jackass Number Two (2006) and Valley Girl (1983). "He Could Be the One" was also used in Valley Girl.
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