Kopelson is one of the founders of the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus. In the ’80s and early ’90s, it seemed that everyone in the chorus was passing away from AIDS. “You’d go to rehearsal on a Sunday and hear that someone else had died,” he said.
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Kopelson is one of the founders of the Chicago Gay Men’s Chorus. In the ’80s and early ’90s, it seemed that everyone in the chorus was passing away from AIDS. “You’d go to rehearsal on a Sunday and hear that someone else had died,” he said.