Has any LGBTQ character that you have written, impacted you, as a writer, a female, and as a person writing out their experience? Is it hard to write LGBTQ characters, yourself? Do some folks have a better grasp at it because they experienced it, firsthand

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Anything I say here is probably going to sound like a copout, but I learn things from almost all the characters I write. If you can't wear those hats, you probably shouldn't be a writer.

As for lgbtq characters, I am not sure how to express that. When I think of them, I don't think of a cold list of characters with a particular grouping, I think of the individual characters, and how much I adore them. I think of brave and distant Rainmaker, bold and brassy Jeannette, lonely yet hopeful Achilles, loving and fierce Scandal, you know, on and on.

They are characters first to me, they affect me every time I write them. And they may have a special place in my heart because I know they mean so much to some people.

I wouldn't be at all surprised if lgbtq people wrote lgbtq characters better, I don't really know, but that sounds perfectly plausible and logical. Devin is openly bi and I was tremendously excited for her to write a gay female character, but on the other hand, it seems hard to complain when the alternative was Greg Rucka and JH Williams doing one of the best books DC has ever published.

I think more lgbtq writers and artists would be lovely, it's necessary.

I don't have great answers for any of these questions, I notice. Sorry!