My research project is about same-sex marriage. I am going to interview my co-work. She is legally married to her long-term partner during the window when proposition 8 first past in San Francisco. They both married to man before, have children and ended up divorced. I will ask her the following questions:
Background personal history. Where did she grow up? go to school? get married? # of children? get divorced? When did the two of them meet? how did they meet? when did they fall in love? What was it like? Did they know they were gay? Was that a surprise to them? How did they tell their children? Was that a problem when they tell their Children? How did they tell their family? Did they feel accepted by their family or they feel rejected.
Relationship as a gay couple. What made them to decide to get married? Why was it important to them? What was it like to be a gay couple? Were they accepted by people or they hide it from people? Did they tell people? How did they make them feel if they need to hide it from people? Was there any time they were afraid for themselves because people can be really violence and mean.
Their Religion. How did they deal with the conflict between their faith and their sexuality? Did it shake their belief in their religion? It this make the disbelieve or question about their religion?
Once I know the background and their history, the questions come more naturally, then the questions about what they live through and how they felt about it. Because once I know who they are I will be able to describe and figure out what happened to them and how they felt.
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