Unveiling Marsha P. Johnson: The Untold Story of Joy, Defiance, and Revolution in Tourmaline’s New Film
Marsha had long dreamed of performing onstage, and in the mid-70s began to find various venues, which she inevitably stole from the moment she walked onto them. Two downtown groups, the Angels of Light and Jimmy Camicia’s Hot Peaches, became performance homes for her, and the latter group toured LA and London, giving her a chance to see more of the world.
Tourmaline documents what seems to be every single fact she could find about this phase: what Marsha wore, what she sang—notoriously off-key—who she performed with, which theaters, the fact that Andy Warhol asked her to pose for a portrait. “Marsha wove together activism and performance into a fabric that was a confluence of social movements: the downtown art scene, antiwar activism, Black Power, and gay liberation.”
