Hello, those with multiple descriptives!

[Carol]

I'm Carol, and I'm gray ace, bi, and genderqueer (she/her). I'm fairly new to realizing just exactly what my appropriate sexuality labels are because my body threw me a lot of confusing curveballs, and I grew up in a very conservative rural area and had no idea anything other than gay existed until college, and then anything other than that until Lady Gaga described what she was in an interview and Coach Beiste on Glee kind of expressed similar but actually transitioned. But, I was definitely in love with my childhood best friend by the time her family moved away when we were 10, because I was bawling and clinging to her like my life depended on it and I got jealous whenever I heard someone else from here had flown to visit her.

I haven't found very many LGBTQ+ fiction titles outside fanfiction that I've enjoyed. I like any pairing in YA, but for adult romance I prefer M/M. Any era is good. Don't care for heavy kink in my reading, though some flirty D/s can be cute. I am triggered by nonconsensual acts and any psychological or physical mistreatment or neglect.

I am a liberal First United Methodist dumbfounded that a church that once split over desegregation, and the resulting FUMC vowed it would never judge people by the way God made them, is now splitting over exactly that (its disseminated churches joining the Free Methodists, the very ones who split off because of desegregation!) Needless to say, I'm working to remind the church of the teachings of Jesus and to show by example that we can be appropriate, worthy, compassionate, reverent people. And we are God's children, and no one can take that away from us but God. Anyone else judging our right to be in a church worshipping is going against God's instructions through Moses and Jesus's instructions about how we should behave toward one another.

not very popular with the local churches am I, but they should read the Bible instead of pick and choose favorite sections from which to preach.

[Daisy]

Hi Carol, my name is Daisy, I used to read a lot of True Crime only because walking into Barnes and Noble it was much easier to find, asking where the Lesbian section is always got the “we have a very small section here” and by small they were not kidding. Then I discovered Thrift Books and let’s just say I have quite the library now and the books are a fraction of the price. You mentioned M/M books I have read a 3 series set by E.Lynn Harris the first book is Invisible Life I highly recommended all 3. 😊 Happy Reading 📚