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The Human Rights Education Series is published by the Human Rights Resource Center at the University of Minnesota. Edited by Nancy Flowers, the series provides resources for the ever-growing body of educators and activists working to build a culture of human rights in the United States and throughout the world. Topic Book 3, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective is jointly published by Amnesty International USA, The Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), and the Human Rights Resource Center. Other publications in the series include:

Human Rights Here and Now: Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights ��edited by Nancy Flowers

Economic and Social Justice: A Human Rights Perspective ��by David Shiman

Raising Children with Roots, Rights & Responsibilities:

Celebrating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child ��by Lori Dupont, Joanne Foley, and Annette Gagliardi

Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights: A Human Rights Perspective may be reproduced without permission for educational use only. No reproductions may be sold for profit. Excerpted or adapted material from this publication must include full citation of the source. To reproduce for any other purposes, a written request must be submitted to the Human Rights Resource Center.

Cover Photography by Person. Book design by Terri Kinne.

ISBN 0-9675334-2-2

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A contribution to the United Nations Decade for Human Rights Education, 1995-2004.