Being diverse with your characters doesn't mean simply having characters that belong to ethnic, sexual, gender, romantic, etc minorities. It means having them and writing them well.
You are not a diverse author if your minority characters: your POC, your women, your LGBT+s, etc. are just stereotypes. That isn't diversity, that's offensive.
To write a good character that is a member of a minority group you just write a good character, and then make them a minority group. Bam. That's it. If you have a hard time doing that then decide their personality, interests, social status, etc. before you decide their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Or pick their ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation at random after figuring out the character.
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