Awards

• Commended for Shelf Unbound Competition for Best Independently Published Book 2018
• Runner-up for Independent Press Award - Distinguished Favorites 2018
• Short-listed for Montaigne Medal (Eric Hoffer Award) Finalist 2018
• Winner of 2018 DBW Awards 2018
• Winner of Digital Book World (DBW) Awards 2018
• Winner of Global Ebook Awards 2018
• Winner of Purple Dragonfly Book Awards 2018
• Winner of San Francisco Book Festival 2018

Overview

"The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name by Fiza Pathan is a collection of twenty-one original short stories, each centered on some aspect of the social, cultural, psychological, and emotional issues facing the LGBTQIA community in the world today. False prejudice has blighted much of society's sensitivity to what is necessarily a human rights issue. Ignorance has compounded it. What if you, as a parent or a family member, are faced with this ""coming out"" issue? Are you aware what each term in the acronym LGBTQIA really means? Are you aware of the emotional and psychological damage you do to a loved one when you fail to understand, and/or reject, their perspective of love, sex, and acceptance? Understanding the implications of the above, the author after months of research has crafted these stories based on actual conditions existing in different countries of the world. You will meet Rocky in ""(A)sexual Story,"" the psychiatrist Dr. Timothy in ""Fix It,"" and Jasmine and Randy in ""Human Work of Art."" You will learn about DSD--Dysfunction Sexual Disorder--in ""Isher"" and why Bangkok is called the ""Kathoey Paradise."" You will shudder at the public repression of gays by ISIS in Raqqa, and learn about the dichotomy that exists in Iran. You will revel at the miracle you witness in ""Topanga,"" cry for Sameera in ""The Girls' Bathroom,"" and be educated by ""The Gay Truth."" And in all these stories and many more, you will learn that every human being suffers like you do and rejoices as you do, and deserves the right to choose how he or she should live their life, however different we perceive them to be."

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I loved reading The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan and couldn't put it down. I found the stories poignant and, at the same time, delivering a strong message and depicting the realities of lives lived in the shadows and often under the burden of shame. Fiza Pathan is obviously a very talented writer and manages to make the stories not only meaningful, but also enjoyable in a certain sense purely from the creative aspect. The actual content of the stories is moving and sad. However, hopefully, it is books like these that will ultimately enable true recognition and acceptance of this much alienated and shunned community, and eventually enable them to get to a place where being LGBTQIA is regarded just as normal and ordinary as being heterosexual or anything else in the world today. This is a must-read book! Reviewed by Gisela Dixon for Readers' Favorite

"""I loved reading The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories by Fiza Pathan and couldn't put it down. I found the stories poignant and, at the same time, delivering a strong message and depicting the realities of lives lived in the shadows and often under the burden of shame. Fiza Pathan is obviously a very talented writer and manages to make the stories not only meaningful, but also enjoyable in a certain sense purely from the creative aspect. The actual content of the stories is moving and sad. However, hopefully, it is books like these that will ultimately enable true recognition and acceptance of this much alienated and shunned community, and eventually enable them to get to a place where being LGBTQIA is regarded just as normal and ordinary as being heterosexual or anything else in the world today. This is a must-read book!"" Reviewed by Gisela Dixon for Readers' Favorite"

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