Living in an area that had at the time a semi-functional anarcho-communist economy, they were a troupe of leftist performers, including trans women, LGBQAETC people of all stripes, genderqueer people, and were pioneers in the liberation of sexual and gender minorities.
Also Sylvester and Divine were a part of it, and they have a parody of exploitation movies about Marxist elevator girls.
John Waters describes them as “The only drag troupe I ever knew who read Lenin”
Later they had an ideological split.
Thoughts From The Peacock Angel 