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  "publishedAt": "2026-03-26T14:04:48.000Z",
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  "textContent": "📰 How did documentary filmmaker Rachel Mason get a killer to confess on camera? It all started with an article in a 1990 issue of _The Advocate_. Ariel Messman-Rucker spoke with Mason about how she helped catch gay porn star Billy London's killer. (Help support _The Advocate_ — and get our print edition — by becoming a member today!)\n\nLast week's episode of _RuPaul's Drag Race_ featured a grim story: one of the makeover challenge participants recalled his friendship with Barry Winchell, an Army soldier murdered in a 1999 hate crime. Trans activist Calpernia Addams, Winchell's girlfriend at the time, said she was \"shocked\" to see photos of herself and Winchell in the episode.\n\nDallas has become the latest city to see its rainbow crosswalks removed. But when a local man tried to repain them, he was arrested — and he says he'd do it all again.\n\nUntil next time,\n\n**_The Advocate_ team**\n\n### The brutal 1990 murder of a gay porn star was solved with the help of an old 'Advocate' article\n\n\n\n\n### Pennsylvania House approves Malcolm Kenyatta’s marriage equality bill to update outdated state law\n\n\n\n\n### Project 2025 is a massive success with ICE in airports, civil rights eroding & elections in flux\n\n\n\n\n### Calpernia Addams ‘shocked’ by Drag Race’s mention of boyfriend’s 1999 murder\n\n\n\n\n### Campus is not a closet: Why removing Pride flags from Boston University is not 'neutral'\n\n\n\n\n### Feminist magazine tours campuses with talks on race and gender, taking a page from Turning Point USA\n\n\n\n\n### Arrested for repainting erased Dallas Pride crosswalks, Texas man says he’d do it again\n\n\n\n\n### Kentucky city pays photographer $800,000 in same-sex wedding case\n\n\n\n\n### IN PICTURES: ACT UP New York’s march and die-in outside Palantir\n\n\n\n\n### Idaho’s bathroom bill leaves transgender men like me with an impossible choice: jail or violence\n\n\n",
  "title": "Advocate newsletter 3/26/26"
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