Summary; What We Found in Our Research

We found some rather interesting things in our research. We interviewed both people who believed homosexuality was fine and those who did not. Over all, the people who were fine with homo/bisexuality said that it was good to have diversity and that people should be aloud to love who they want. Those who weren't okay with such things had rather weak reasoning, saying it simply wasn't right. We only had two people who was against gays interviewed, but I've never heard a very legitimate reason from any of my sources.

People should be able to love who they wish; homosexuality is different, not bad. One homosexual interviewee said, "I'd like to show them that we are the same people and do the same things as an aveage person, we just like the same sex..." This is from an average student from Envision Academy. In the interview this person also says it's important to have a diverse community, she has many friends and believes that others shouldn't judge a person just because they like the same gender.

This is the final data table we came up with, we couldn't analyze the third person's interview because it was incomplete. Numbers one, two, four, six, and seven were all students of Envision Academy; number five was a teacher at this school.

Person	Orientation	Theme	Summary	Key Quote
1	Homosexual	Good to have differences.	Proud to be homosexual, believes it's good to have a diverse community.	(To the question: ?) "Show them that we are the same people and do the same things as average people."
2	Bisexual	People shouldn't judge others just because they're bisexual.	Zie* was worried about how others would treat zir so often hides the fact zie is bisexual.	(To the question: ?) "That they could see who we really are, see that we're the same sort of people and we're really cool."
4	Bisexual	People shouldn't judge others just because they're bisexual.	Judged by others because zie is bisexual.	"They don't understand."
5	Heterosexual	There are people who truly love others of the same gender, this isn't a bad thing.	People should be more excepting of differences, it's good some know who they are.	"I love when kids know who they are at a young age, that's a sign of confidence."
6	Bisexual	Be who you are.	Doesn't let others bring zir down, will love who zie wants to.	"No matter what people tell me to do Ima always going to do what I wanna do; if I like girls, Ima like girls, if I like guys, I like guys.
7	Heterosexual	Doesn't believe people should be homosexual/bisexual.	Believes homosexuality is just a faze and that people aren’t supposed to be like that.	"Boys some be acting too girly, they be doing too much stuff. Girls is okay I don't have a problem with it but it's still nasty."

 Our research has shown that homosexuals and bisexuals are judged and are in most cases treated differently because of this. Some are more out going than others on the issue, most students believe it's important to have an open mind and accept differences. There are some that disagree (number three also seemed to disagree from what we could gather) but the majority were interested in change. We hope that by showing this information we bring more awarness to the topic and, with all hopes acceptance.

*Zie: Gender-neutral pronoun.