Your Rights As an LGBTQ+ Teen
New York, NY : Rosen Publishing Group, Inc., [2018]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 64 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Each chapter in this comprehensive title provides resources for teens encountering interpersonal or systemic mistreatment at home, school, work, and in their community. The text lays out their legally recognized rights in these contexts, providing information about how to make use of existing laws. Also included are strategies for meeting needs not currently recognized as legal rights, drawing on past and contemporary struggles for equality. Accessible and engaging, this title provides LGBTQ+ youth with the tools to protect themselves, participate safely in the activities they care about, and to make societal change.
Series: LGBTQ+ guide to beating bullying.
Contents:
Introduction -- Who we are and what we need -- Your rights at school and at work -- LGBTQ+ youth at home -- How to deal with the government -- Access to medical care.
Subjects:
Sexual minority youth -- Civil rights -- United States.
Sexual minority youth -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
Sexual minority youth -- Civil rights -- United States.
Sexual minority youth -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- United States.
ISBN:
9781508174387
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
T GOV Pen | Southeast | Teen Nonfiction | In |
Includes bibliographical references and index.