When This Week in Texas rolled off the presses, it wasn’t just another regional magazine — it became one of the few loud, proud megaphones for Texas’ queer, bohemian, and outsider communities. For decades, its pages covered art, nightlife, music, underground culture, and the hidden scenes that the mainstream preferred to ignore.
With roots deep in the ’70s and ’80s, TWIT gave space to folks who never made it into polite society: drag performers, punk bands, leather-scene icons, loud lesbians and gay men, hustlers, dreamers, and those searching for community under neon lights. It documented the parties, the protests, the subcultures, and the slow-burning movements that would reshape identity across Texas.
