If you regularly attend theater and other cultural events in the Palm Springs area, chances are you’ve run into Danny Kopelson. He wanted to be part of the community, so he began volunteering for groups and events like the Desert AIDS Project (now DAP Health), the Palm Springs International Film Festival, the Palm Springs Art Museum and the Human Rights Campaign. He joined both the Palm Springs Gay Men’s Chorus and the Modern Men Chorus. Palm Springs has one of the largest groups of long-term HIV survivors, per capita, anywhere in the country, and possibly the world. Coming from a place like Chicago, Kopelson was concerned when he arrived that the performing arts scene in Palm Springs might be lacking.