Nick, Tamara, Maggie, Sam, Johnny

1. Homophobia
A project proposal: By Tamara, Nick and Sam (10D), Maggie
and Johnny (9D).

2. Contents
Area of study and project focus
Project aims
Purpose and audience
Our roles
Reasons for choosing the topic
Our 6 key questions
Timeframe

3. Area of study and project focus
• Our area of study is discrimination, more specifically,
homophobia.
• Our project focus in homophobia. We aim to study into the
causes of homophobia, and how conflict can be resulted.
From this, we will find out how it affects us, and the state of
homophobia in Hong Kong and worldwide, and how other
people and organizations help to prevent homophobic
violence. Our main project question is: How does homophobia
cause violence.
• Our main project question is: How does homophobia cause
violence and conflict?

4. Purpose and audience
Purpose:
• To inform our audience on how homophobia can cause
conflict and violence.
• To raise awareness to the issue of homophobia.
• To explain the state of homophobia in Hong Kong and
worldwide.
• To explain why people may be homophobic.
Audience:
• As our final exhibition will take place inside of school, our
audience will be mainly teachers and students in school.

5. Project aims
Our aims for our audience:
• To raise awareness about the issue of homophobia.
• Let people know that homophobia can cause violence and
conflict.
• Shows how homophobia is around us in our daily lives.
Our aims for ourselves:
• To find out the causes of homophobia, and how we are
affected.
• To create a successful product that has relevant information.
• To understand about the state of homophobia locally and
globally.
• To work well as a team, manage our time efficiently, and
practice our organization and communication skills.

6. Our roles
Maggie Yueh: As Maggie is quite creative and artistic, she
provided our group with extra skills needed in creating our
poster. Maggie also contributed to our project proposal.
Tamara Cohas: Tamara is also creative, and used her skills well in
creating our poster. Tamara also mainly created our project
proposal.
Nick Basford: Nick felt that he was an efficient researcher, and
so he contributed to the majority of our group’s research.
Sam Liem: As Sam had very good technical abilities, he provided
the most skill in designing and creating our group’s powerpoint
presentation.
Johnny Yeung: Johnny also had good technical skills, and worked
with Sam on creating our powerpoint.

7. Our 6 key questions
• What is the current state of homophobia in Hong Kong?
• What are the causes of homophobia?
• Where is homophobia most prevalent?
• How does homophobia cause violence and conflict?
• How are people/organizations working to prevent
homophobia?
• How does homophobia affect us?

8. Group outcomes
What we hope to achieve:
• To manage our time efficiently and complete our project
before it is due.
• To raise awareness and deliver a message about change.
• To learn more about homophobia in general.
Proposed outcome:
• A power point presentation
• A poster

9. Timeframe