A humid breeze blew through Jimmy Hutcheson’s hair as he drove with the window rolled down on his way out of Springtown, Texas. His car rolled past the chamber of commerce and the Eureka Masonic Lodge, familiar places filled with the locals who knew Jimmy the way he wanted to be seen in the early 1980s—as a straight man. That summer night in 1983, though, he was dropping the act and going to a gay bar in Fort Worth, thirty minutes southeast, called the Other Place. He pressed his foot harder on the gas pedal and turned up the radio as he left his hometown behind. As soon as Hutcheson saw the cars pulled up in front of the nondescript warehouse building for the first time,…The post As Lawmakers Turn Their Sights on Drag Shows, LGBTQ Spaces Have Been Disappearing Across Texas for Decades appeared first on Texas Monthly.