Why I Write LGBTQ+ Characters
We're All Huggable Freaks on the Struggle Bus of Life
I've written short stories of late, in addition to my published novels. I don't have a particular gender or sexual identity that's my template. My characters are all over the map:
a deaf orphan teen
three blood siblings and a foster sister
a nursing professor with an abusive ex
a rich college student who loses a sister in a car crash
a drag-queen diva
a drunken gay philosopher with a penchant for practical jokes
an accidental eunuch who lives in a storage unit
a widowed pharmacist who adopts a seal
a Victorian woman who dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench
a Ugandan brother and sister adopted by an American evangelical preacher
a black lesbian Methodist minister and her musical-genius wife
a teen single-mom haunted by breast-feeding ghosts
a dead girl
a Texas lawyer obsessed with a shirt Peter Gabriel wore
a homeless enbie ex-Classics professor
We're all blessed to be freaks.