Indians identifying as LGBTQIAP+ often face challenges in accessing healthcare facilities. The challenges include experiences of stigma, discrimination, and abuse, among others. The lack of sensitization and training among Indian health professionals is considered a main contributor to these inequities. There is a dearth of culturally appropriate teaching material to teach and sensitize health professionals.

Sharing of stories or narratives is a powerful tool to teach about the lives of people whose voices are otherwise not heard or prominent in general discourse. Storytelling, or sharing a personal perspective, is an essential form of human communication and a vehicle for human connection. It educates, motivates, and reduces fears; it is also an alternative to otherwise didactic education that is predominantly based on facts. These experiences, when shared with us in the form of first-person narratives from the community, have the ability to significantly influence health professionals in their conduct and approach toward the community.

Further, the first-person narrative building, through various arts-based methods, aligns with the concepts of medical humanities, particularly narrative medicine. By narrowing the professional and personal distance, narratives seek to provide and develop new opportunities for respectful, empathetic, and nurturing health care.