Collaboration on the Cancha: Sustaining and Multiplying Social Relations through Scandalous Spectacles Available to Purchase

Through close analysis of the planning of a gay and transgender soccer tournament, and the scandalous stories that ensued as the tournament progressed, this chapter develops the concept of collaboration as a theory of social relatedness and queer world-making in urban Amazonian Peru. As opposed to existing theories of redistributive politics in Latin America that emphasize the mediation of redistribution between unequal dyads (e.g., clientelism and patronage), collaboration was a triadic system that emphasized the ongoing creation and multiplication of redistributive social relationships. And instead of positing social and communal cohesion as an outcome of HIV prevention, collaboration names an existing condition of queer social life in Peru that came to be transformed by HIV prevention efforts during the 2010s.