The Savvy Ally

A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

By: Jeannie Gainsburg

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Paperback | 31 March 2023 | Edition Number 2

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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 doesnât 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 readerâs 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.

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If youâre interested in being an effective ally to the LGBTQ+ communities then put this book on your required-reading list and learn from one of the best. Gainsburgâs savviness, warmth, sensitivity, and humor emanate from every page. Youâre going to love this book.
â" Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of GLAAD

Jeannie Gainsburg has written a brilliant guide to what we all need to know and do to be better allies for LGBTQ+ people in all aspects of our lives. Itâs a treasure trove of practical ideas, sprinkled with the perfect amount of humor.
â" Karen Catlin, author of Better Allies and Belonging in Healthcare

This is it. You found itâ"the very best guide on how not to make mistakes with LGBTQ+ employees, customers, students, congregants, patients, and family members. If you want to be an effective ally for LGBTQ+ people, buy and read The Savvy Ally. I very enthusiastically endorse this book (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Brian McNaught, named by The New York Times âThe Godfather of Gay Diversity Trainingâ

This is a beautiful book. A necessary book. An unputdownable book. Please read this book. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Alison Smith, Lambda Literary Award Winner and author of Name All the Animals

An ideal, practical, effective, and thoroughly user friendly DIY instructional guide and manual, The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate is an especially and unreservedly recommended addition to family, personal, professional, community, college, and university library LGBTQ collections and supplemental curriculum studies lists. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Midwest Book Review; Midwest Book Review

If you want to support LGBTQ+ people but no one has ever taught you how, this is the book for you. Written in an accessible and entertaining style, The Savvy Ally is filled with useful scenarios, tips, and examples to help you transition from well-intentioned bystander to effective and informed advocate. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Robyn Ochs, named by Teen Vogue as one of â9 Bisexual Women Who are Making Historyâ

If you have LGBTQ+ friends, family, colleagues, service users, or are simply keen to be more knowledgeable about the subject of gender equity, The Savvy Ally is the best reference guide you are ever likely to read. Jeannie Gainsburg is a skilled and professional ally, as well as a tremendous author. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Matt McAvoy, senior editor, MJV Literary Author Services

This is such an amazing book about how someone who is not part of the LGBTQ+ community can be a helpful advocate to those who areâ¦ I highly recommend this book to everyone. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Kathleen Garber, SMS Nonfiction Book Reviews

This book is long overdue, and I loved reading it! It is a call to action in a positive, optimistic, and engaging wayâ"a masterful blend of information, personal stories, humor, and serious content. This is much more than just an informative book. It is designed to build skills that can be translated into ongoing, meaningful action. If you want to be an effective LBGTQ+ ally, buy this book. It wonât just sit on your shelf. Youâll use it every day! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Mike Streeter, executive director, Workforce Diversity Network

I love the compassionate sentiment that is weaved through this book that being an ally doesnât mean you have to be perfect; it means being able to acknowledge when a mistake is made and then trying your best to be better. If you truly want to be an ally, The Savvy Ally will lead the way through real-life examples, questions that make you go hmmm . . ., and âwhat ifâ scenarios. Thank you, Jeannie Gainsburg, for supporting my ally journey! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Kimberly Braithwaite, Senior Human Resource Manager, Barilla America Inc. and one of Diversity Journalâs 2019 âWomen Worth Watchingâ

The Savvy Ally provides a successful foray into the confusing and ever-changing world of being an ally to the LGBTQ+ community. The thoughtful definitions, various analogies, and personal examples used to clarify issues are always helpful and often brilliant. Clearly, Gainsburgâs many years of âoperating in solidarity withâ the LGBTQ+ community have provided her with the necessary insight to create such a useful tool. I am grateful for such a perceptive and kindhearted book! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Matthew Burns, Dean of Students, University of Rochester

The Savvy Ally is a read for everyone. It is one of the best tutorials Iâve read that offers key insights into LGBTQ communities while offering practical guidance and action-oriented tips that will help allies become more culturally competent, respectful, and impactful in their interactions, both personally and in business.(Previous Edition Praise)
â" Joseph L. Searles, Corporate Diversity Relations Director, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield

The Savvy Ally is a book I will recommend again and again for its thoughtful approach to gaining knowledge, skill, and confidence. Itâs a much-needed tool in our box! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Kelly Clark, director of the Q Center, Binghamton University

Once in a while, a book comes along that resonates with my heart & my lifes passion/mission. This is The Savvy Ally book by Jeannie Gainsburg. It contains all the relevant aspects and more on how to be an ALLY, excuse me, a SAVVY ALLY as Jeannies badass humor and personality came through the reading for me. I love it so much! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Loan Nguyen, PFLAG New York City Program Coordinator

In her book, The Savvy Ally, Jeannie Gainsburg informs and empowers readers to consider how they might be more open and engaging toward those who might be different. It is a resource I have recommended many times. (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Hunter OHanian, executive director, Stonewall National Museum & Archives

I was really hesitant to read a book written about the LGBTQ+ community by someone who does not identify as LGBTQ+. I read the first few pages with skepticism, ready to poke holes in the book. And... I have never been so happy to be proven wrong! Jeannies book is filled with great information for anyone who wants to understand what it means to be an advocate for LGBTQ+ people and how to act as an ally. Its also educational for those within the communityâ"I found myself saying Huh! I didnt know that! multiple times as I was reading. I loved the book so much that we offered the book as a virtual book club at work during pride month this June. My colleagues had rich and meaningful discussion and we would highly recommend it! (Previous Edition Praise)
â" Cara Pelletier, senior director of Diversity, Equity & Belonging, Ultimate Kronos Group

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