The Love That Dare Not Speak Its Name: Short Stories

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 societys 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.