Don Maines

Donalevan Maines is a regular contributor to OutSmart Magazine.
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The 10 Percent

In a year that pitted the 99 percent vs. the 1 percent, it didn’t seem like the 10 percent made…

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The Byrd Man Brings It On

The gay cheerleader and the Baptists: “Being voted Mr. HBU—I call it my beauty queen moment.”

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Lavender Marriage

“The most exciting loves are the loves that we don’t talk about,” actress Katherine Cornell tells a starstruck fan in…

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Out and Onstage

The show was Urinetown: The Musical. Across a crowded room, Michael Brian Dunn, playing Mr. McQueen, saw a stranger, Kurt…

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Dancing to the Top

Maybe it was "Memphis." No, definitely it was "Memphis." Getting cast in 2010’s Tony Award-winner for Best Musical, Kyle Leland…

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Dancing in the Dark

About two years ago, this germ of an idea whetted the appetite of a number of local creative folks, who…

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The Emmys Get Lynced

These days, to be considered for the hosting job, it seems that you have to be a lesbian (see Ellen…

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Steven Jamail’s Rosie Life

When Rosie O’Donnell went looking for a music director for her ambitious inner-city New York charity, Rosie’s Theater Kids, she…

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Hear ‘The Book’

Only Adele and Lady Gaga topped The Book of Mormon’s sales for the highest-charting Broadway album since Hair in 1969.

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Humiliation

“Penises have two tendencies. They rise. And they fall” states this latest offering in the publisher’s “BIG IDEAS//small books” series.…

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