Don Maison, a gay rights leader and longtime leader of AIDS Services of Dallas, died Monday after being diagnosed in November with esophageal cancer. He was...
As a civil rights lawyer and former head of AIDS Services of Dallas, Don Maison fought for the rights of LGBTQ Texans and those living with HIV and AIDS. He was a pillar in the housing advocacy and gay rights world.
As a civil rights lawyer in the 1970s and 80s, he represented LGBTQ Texans fighting for fair treatment. As the president and CEO of AIDS Services of Dallas, he took a ramshackle home and turned it into a housing haven for hundreds of men, women and children living with HIV. And as a friend, he could be found most nights at“Don was remarkable for his sense of social justice. It was what he lived and breathed,” longtime friend Ellen Sweets said on Thursday.
There, he joined the nascent LGBTQ rights movement and represented those like him who were targeted because of their sexuality. “He was very outspoken, spoke his mind no matter what, which sometimes made us want to put a zipper on his mouth,” O’Connor said. “He would treat the Queen of England the same way he’d treat a homeless guy on the street.”
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