3. Share a personal moment of inspiration and one challenging moment in the course of your project (it can be in the form of a photo, a note, a conversation- why is it Significant?)

4. Story Creation: How will my project create meaningful impact around my chosen community by challenging representation through the powerful mediums of photography and storytelling?

For instance, we should avoid using keywords such as “abnormal”, “marginalized”, “mysterious”, “excluded”, and “vulnerable”.

Bias can exist in multiple forms, negative, or positive, both are possible. Among which positive bias is likely to be ignored by either the interviewer or the audience. “Abnormal”, and “Mysterious” are two common negative bias, which are also obvious. They are usually put on LGBTQ+ community by major Chinese society. All 'keywords' listed above are tags that generate by people who are delighted to understand homosexual people. However, surprisingly these stereotypes, which are seemingly the product of single-perspective story, are not noticed in most of the cases. Notably, these labels promote the isolation of LGBTQ+ community, through adding the distance among them and the so-called “majority”. Hence, getting rid of tags is a very prior objective that project researchers are expected to achieve. Beyond of it, categorizing people into certain type of groups has actually been a phenomenon in the society. Sorting living beings into rough and rigid “ism” instead of digging into the individuals is the biggest failure that can happen on a journalist.

2: Receive CONSENT. Avoid digging into detailed/personal information that the interviewee is uncomfortable to reveal. Accurately deliver interviewee’s opinion. Avoid disclosure of interviewees’ identities if they are not willing to.

Topics around LGBTQ+ community can get slightly bit sensitive sometimes, especially under the Chinese cultural background it is sometimes hard to full-heartedly express everything. We will be extra careful throughout the whole course of the project. First, When conducting interviews, we should seek a balance between getting necessary information and protecting the personal details based on informed consent and voluntary participation. Following interviews, the subsequent presentation of stories should be kept objective, and we must not disclose any information that was asked to be kept confidential. Last but not least, our work should be reviewed and approved by the interviewees before we release it to the public.

3. Avoid intentionally adding personal critique upon Chinese traditional educational system. (Specifically, Chinese conventional mindset)

The research is going to explore the influences brought by Chinese traditional thinking on the way LGBTQ+ community people present their stories. Indeed, this intention is likely to provoke a immediate subconscious bias that Chinese traditional educational system is oppressing LGBTQ+ community. However, pure conduction of the story, sole conveying of the idea are always the first discipline for journalist. We shall not superimpose our perspectives upon neither the subject of the investigation nor the background.  

We ardently and heartedly wish that one day, we shall embrace the equality and zero discrimination, and the sexual preference will not be a label on anyone.

In the article part, we will further discuss the effect brought by minor sexual preference with our interviewees. Revealing their concern as they are living in a society that has not reach absolute equality.

Through the project, we are seeking to give people more freedom in presenting their story, instead of limiting in their sexual preference, and being tagged because of that.