Stories That Count: The Pathways of Discrimination Stories

As the 2020 deadline to meet the 90-90-90 targets approached, project specialists in Peru creatively responded to the problem of unreliable and out-of-date data about HIV/AIDS by drawing on LGBT activist data about discrimination and human rights in order to fill in the gaps. This chapter traces the unanticipated route that stories of discrimination took as they were collected as narratives in the cities of the Amazonian region, sent to activist collectives and NGOs in capital-city Lima, and then returned to the Amazonian region in the form of statistical and quantitative data. Over the process, social relations—especially the intersubjective relations between researchers and research subjects—transformed and new queer subjectivities emerged.