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02120aam a22003978i 4500 001 6A33EE9AE25C11E8B947250B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20181107010235 008 170728t20182018caua j b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2017019490 020 $a 1682822311 020 $a 9781682822319 035 $a (OCoLC)981118753 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BTCTA $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d CHILD $d ON8 $d IWB $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 100 1 $a Karson, Damon, $e author. 245 10 $a Human rights in focus : $b the LGBT community / $c by Damon Karson. 246 30 $a LGBT community. 246 3 $a Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender community. 263 $a 1707. 264 1 $a San Diego, CA : $b ReferencePoint Press, $c [2018] 300 $a 80 pages : $b color illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Human rights in focus. 521 2 $a Grade 9-12. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a A global overview of LGBT rights -- Criminalization -- Discrimination -- Violence and harassment -- Efforts to protect the human rights of the LGBT community. 520 $a Human rights advocates contend that the LGBT community has yet to achieve full equality and acceptance in the United States and elsewhere. In recent years in the United States, state legislators have introduced more than 250 bills that limit LGBT rights and twenty of these have become law. In other parts of the world, it remains shameful to identify as LGBT; in some countries, it is even punishable by death. These and other human rights concerns are examined. 650 0 $a Sexual minorities $z United States $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Human rights $z United States $v Juvenile literature. 650 0 $a Juvenile works. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Karson, Damon, author. $t Human rights in focus $d San Diego, CA : ReferencePoint Press, [2018] $z 9781682822326 $w (DLC) 2017036360. 830 0 $a Human rights in focus (Reference Point Press) 941 $a 1 952 $l 3HSX245 $d 20231214011058.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6A33EE9AE25C11E8B947250B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search