 In 1990, Johnson performed with The Hot Peaches in London.Johnson also became an AIDS activist and appeared in The Hot Peaches production "The Heat" in 1990, singing the song "Love" while wearing an ACT UP, "Silence = Death" button.Johnson was one of the first drag queens to go to the Stonewall Inn, after they began allowing women and drag queens inside; it was previously a bar for only gay men.