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Y, KURT COBA WAS A GNGE IN. HE WAS ALSO A GAY RIGHTS HERO.
Poison sudnly took off, which led to the 1988 sophomore-effort album, Open Up and Say...
Poison Avoids the Sophomore Slump. Sellg over 3 ln pi of an pennt album which clud the big hs “Talk Dirty To Me”, “I Won’t Fet You”, “Cry Tough”, “I Want Actn” and the unrground smash “Look What The Cat Dragged In” they were soon picked up by Capol Rerds and beat the sophomore jx by releasg the #1 smash “Every Rose Has It’s Thorn”.
”Do people ever thk the band members are gay? Coba is the Gen X in who popularized alternative mic and culture, but on the 25th anniversary of his ath this week, I cherish another aspect of his legacy much more: his nsistent and vol support of gay rights. Coba’s “oh well, whatever, never md” attu about sexual inty, exprsed lyrics and terviews, changed the urse of my Coba might not be the first name you thk of when to gay rights, his band was never shy about s polics, pecially where LGBTQ issu were ncerned.