CoP3// Planning Interviews

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In order to develop something to live along side my essay, that focuses on LGBT, I'm planning on conducing interviews with members of the LGBT community. A few weeks back I posted a digital poster online on LGBT group pages on Facebook, Tumblr and Twitter to advertise for interviewees. The response I got from people who had seen my poster was massive and every response was positive about being involved. After a week or so I set out an email about interviewing information to the Email addresses of the interviewees, offering a digital interview as well as a face-to-face one. I'm going to be conducing the interviews over Skype and Google Hang-Outs and I'm focusing on asking these 5 questions; 

1. What do you identify as?

2. When did you realise you were this identity?

3. When did you first become open about your identity?

4. What responses did you have from becoming open about your identity? 

5. How do you feel about how your identity is represented in media?

I want to focus my questions on the individuals own experience and their opinions on how their experience has been/is going to be. I also want to avoid questions focusing on how poorly represented LGBT is in general, because I'm already fully aware of that - but from personal and research. I want these interviews are all about the individuals within the community and their stories.  

I'm planning on starting interviews this Monday on the 21st and giving myself a week to get all of them done.