johnny coggins's guest appearances

johnny coggins

Conversation For Adults

Lester Spence

Dave Ramsey

Tommy Chong

Jamilah Lemieux

Andy Kindler

Jeffrey Dahmer

Trent Reznor

Phillip Morris

Don King

Kevin Harris

Eric Brewer

Dan Curtin

Mike Paramore

Ron Buford

Anastasia Pantsios

OwlTail

Johnny Coggins is not blood, but he is family to me: I can't remember a time he and his brother LeBron didn't live down the street from my maternal grandmother. I didn't know Johnny was gay until I bumped into him during my 4-year DJ residency at Numbers, a gay bar in Cleveland, back in the mid-90s. We sat down at the loft and I ask him if his brother ever learned his ABCs. I tell him about the protest around having a straight DJ (me) at a gay bar. We talk about why a drag queen with a Lamont Sanford mustache makes (queer) sense, white-flight and classism in Cleveland, his father's barbecue business, and homophobia(?). Also, Johnny and I talk about that time Janet Jackson (imposter) grabbed my package, men having sex on the sink in the men's' room, leaving steaming piles of "chocolate passion" on the floor while i'm trying to piss (ijs), and how while working in a gay bar for four years, I only got hit on a handful of times. I mean, I'm kinda handsome - wtf?! Our conversation is not intentionally about his sexuality, but it comes up a bit, and he lets me ask stupid questions. Johnny, the gay uncle I never knew I needed, patiently explains it all, and more.

<p>Johnny Coggins is not blood, but he is family to me: I can't remember a time he and his brother LeBron didn't live down the street from my maternal grandmother. I didn't know Johnny was gay until I bumped into him during my 4-year DJ residency at Numbers, a gay bar in Cleveland, back in the mid-90s. We sat down at the loft and I ask him if his brother ever learned his ABCs. I tell him about the protest around having a straight DJ (me) at a gay bar. We talk about why a drag queen with a Lamont Sanford mustache makes (queer) sense, white-flight and classism in Cleveland, his father's barbecue business, and homophobia(?). Also, Johnny and I talk about that time Janet Jackson (imposter) grabbed my package, men having sex on the sink in the men's' room, leaving steaming piles of "chocolate passion" on the floor while i'm trying to piss (ijs), and how while working in a gay bar for four years, I only got hit on a handful of times. I mean, I'm kinda handsome - wtf?! Our conversation is not intentionally about his sexuality, but it comes up a bit, and he lets me ask stupid questions. Johnny, the gay uncle I never knew I needed, patiently explains it all, and more.</p>

17. Johnny Coggins, Gay Play-Uncle and Drag Show Producer