Poorman’s 15 Minutes of Fame: Josie Cotton

“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.” — Josie Cotton