The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ Advocate, Second Edition, is an enjoyable, humorous, encouraging, easy to understand guidebook for being an ally to the LGBTQ+ communities. It is chock full of practical and useful tools for LGBTQ+ advocacy. This fully revised second edition includes:

• The most current information on identities and LGBTQ+ language;
• Tips for respectfully sharing, gathering, and using pronouns;
• LGBTQ+ etiquette, including common language bloopers to avoid;
• Tools for navigating difficult conversations;
• Best practices for creating LGBTQ+ inclusive spaces;
• Appropriate actions to take after messing up; and
• Techniques for self-care and sustainable allyship.

This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as the non-freaked out parent who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but doesn't know how. This is not a book about why to be an ally. This is a book about how to be an ally. The goal of The Savvy Ally is to build the reader's confidence in their ability to have respectful and useful conversations for and with LGBTQ+ individuals, and to offer tools to be effective advocates for change.

About the Author

Jeannie Gainsburg is an award-winning educational trainer and consultant in the field of LGBTQ+ inclusion and effective allyship. Formerly the Education Director at the Out Alliance of Rochester, NY, she is the founder of Savvy Ally Action. She has personally facilitated or co-facilitated approximately 500 trainings and workshops in over 20 different states at corporations, colleges, government agencies, K-12 schools, and more. She is the recipient of the Empire State Pride Agenda's Community Champion Award (2015), the Rochester LGBTQ Community Appreciation Award (2019), and a New York State Assembly Distinguished Educational & Human Rights Services Citation (2019). Her writing has been published in Pride Magazine, Metro Justice Newsletter, (585) Magazine, and The Empty Closet, and is currently on several LGBTQ+ websites. Jeannie lives in Rochester, NY with her husband, Ed, and her cat, Carlos. Visit her website and download free ally goodies at www.savvyallyaction.com.

Book Information
ISBN 9781538169247
Author Jeannie Gainsburg
Format Paperback
Page Count 286
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 381g
Dimensions(mm) 223mm * 153mm * 15mm