DON MAISON
on Maison, a Dallas-based lawyer who focused on cases involving LGBTQ+ rights and HIV, died February 21 at age 74 after a bout with esophageal cancer. Maison was known for defending many of the gay men arrested for “public lewdness” at a bar called the Village Station in 1979. Later he became the longest-serving president and CEO of AIDS Services of Dallas. He once said that both his best and worst quality was “not letting go.”
