TWT
This Week in Texas

1983

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This section features downloadable and searchable PDF files of TWT.
By the end of the year, TWT was now around 110 pages.
Access to this publication is courtesy of the
U of H LGBT Resource Center,
and partially from the Jay Allen Collection and my own Archives.


Volume 8-42
1/7/83, PDF

Volume 8-43
1/14/83, PDF

Volume 8-44
1/21/83, PDF

Volume 8-45
1/28/83, PDF


Volume 8-46
2/4/83, PDF


Volume 8-47
2/11/83, PDF

Volume 8-48
2/18/83, PDF

Volume 8-49
2/25/83, PDF

Volume 8-50
3/4/83, PDF


Volume 8-51
3/11/83, PDF


Volume 8-52
3/18/83, PDF


Volume 9-1
3/25/83, PDF

Big Changes ahead...with Volume 9 TWT moves to color, mostly on the covers but often in the ads. And a big change in the binding of the magazine, from being stapled to bound, and with the data on the spine. Unfortunate note, being bound makes scanning harder, ...harder to scan the pages flat. So, if some pages are not perfectly horizontal, blame the binding that fought me.

And, AIDS was looming, with January marking the 6th death in Texas. By June these were no longer "news" and the first obituary appeared in the back (6/17/83). It became our ritual when we picked up our copy of the TWT on Friday nights to first go to the back to see if we knew anyone who had died. Often there were 20 or more.


Volume 9-2
4/1/83, PDF


Volume 9-3
4/8/83
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PDF


Volume 9-4
4/15/83
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PDF


Volume 9-5
4/22/83, PDF


Volume 9-6
4/29/83
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PDF


Volume 9-7
5/6/83
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PDF


Volume 9-8
5/13/83
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PDF

Volume 9-9
5/20/83
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PDF

Volume 9-10
5/27/83
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PDF


Volume 9-11
6/3/83
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PDF


Volume 9-12
6/10/83
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PDF

Volume 9-13
6/17/83
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PDF

After about this time, TWT stopped reporting on individual deaths as "news" stories, it wasn't news any longer. On June 17, 1983, TWT began its now famous Obits section, in the publication's back. It became a "go to first" whenever we picked it up for many years

Volume 9-14
6/24/83
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PDF

Volume 9-15
7/1/83
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PDF

Volume 9-16
7/8/83
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PDF

Volume 9-17
7/15/83
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PDF


Volume 9-18
7/22/83
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PDF


Volume 9-19
7/29/83
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PDF

Volume 9-20
8/5/83
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PDF

Volume 9-21
8/12/83
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PDF


Volume 9-22
8/19/83
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PDF

Volume 9-23
8/26/83
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PDF

Volume 9-24
9/2/83
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PDF


Volume 9-25
9/9/83
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PDF

Volume 9-26
9/16/83
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PDF

Volume 9-27
9/23/83
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PDF

Volume 9-28
9/30/83
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PDF

Volume 9-29
10/7/83
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PDF


Volume 9-30
10/14/83
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PDF


Volume 9-31
10/21/83
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PDF

Volume 9-32
10/28/83
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PDF

Volume 9-33
11/4/83
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PDF

Volume 9-34
11/11/83
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PDF

Volume 9-35
11/18/83
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PDF

Volume 9-36
11/25/83
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PDF

Volume 9-37
12/2/83
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PDF

Volume 9-38
12/9/83
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PDF

Volume 9-39
12/16/83
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PDF

Volume 9-40
12/23/83
PDF

Volume 9-41
12/30/83
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PDF

NEW SCANS!
When I began the project of digitizing all
issues of TWT in 2014 I only had my
ordinary office scanner, way inadequate for the
job. And the results I admit showed it.
Also, I had to borrow issues of TWT from
various archives, taking years to get all of them,
and some were not in wonderful condition.

Now, courtesy of the U of H I have access
to a complete set, allowing me to do the
new scanning in a more ordered method,
and the biggest help was being able (in mid-2019)
to buy an almost professional level
scanner, making all my work much better.

All pages of every issue are scanned
for years where you see this message.
The year 1983 was done between June 5-15, 2022.
I arbitrarily began with 1980...I like the 80s.