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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 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.

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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.-- Midwest Book Review I love the compassionate sentiment that is weaved through this book that being an ally doesn't 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 'what if' scenarios. Thank you, Jeannie Gainsburg, for supporting my ally journey!--Kimberly Braithwaite, Senior Human Resource Manager, Barilla America Inc. and one of Diversity Journal's 2019 Women Worth Watching 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.--Robyn Ochs, named by Teen Vogue as one of 9 Bisexual Women Who are Making History The Savvy Ally is a book I will recommend again and again for its thoughtful approach to gaining knowledge, skill, and confidence. It's a much-needed tool in our box!--Kelly Clark, director of the Q Center, Binghamton University The Savvy Ally is a read for everyone. It is one of the best tutorials I've 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.--Joseph L. Searles, Corporate Diversity Relations Director, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield 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, Gainsburg's many years of 'operating in solidarity with' 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!--Matthew Burns, Dean of Students, University of Rochester

If you're 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. Gainsburg's savviness, warmth, sensitivity, and humor emanate from every page. You're going to love this book.--Sarah Kate Ellis, CEO of GLAAD 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! Jeannie's 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. It's also educational for those within the community--I found myself saying 'Huh! I didn't 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!--Cara Pelletier, senior director of Diversity, Equity & Belonging, Ultimate Kronos Group 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.--Matt McAvoy, senior editor, MJV Literary Author Services 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.--Hunter O'Hanian, executive director, Stonewall National Museum & Archives 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. It's a treasure trove of practical ideas, sprinkled with the perfect amount of humor.--Karen Catlin, author of Better Allies and Belonging in Healthcare Once in a while, a book comes along that resonates with my heart & my life's 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 Jeannie's badass humor and personality came through the reading for me. I love it so much!--Loan Nguyen, PFLAG New York City Program Coordinator This book is long overdue, and I loved reading it! It is a call to action in a positive, optimistic, and engaging way--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 won't just sit on your shelf. You'll use it every day!--Mike Streeter, executive director, Workforce Diversity Network This is a beautiful book. A necessary book. An unputdownable book. Please read this book.--Alison Smith, Lambda Literary Award Winner and author of Name All the Animals This is it. You found it--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--Brian McNaught, named by The New York Times The Godfather of Gay Diversity Training 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 are... I highly recommend this book to everyone.--Kathleen Garber, SMS Nonfiction Book Reviews 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.-- Midwest Book Review I love the compassionate sentiment that is weaved through this book that being an ally doesn't 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 'what if' scenarios. Thank you, Jeannie Gainsburg, for supporting my ally journey!--Kimberly Braithwaite, Senior Human Resource Manager, Barilla America Inc. and one of Diversity Journal's 2019 Women Worth Watching 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.--Robyn Ochs, named by Teen Vogue as one of 9 Bisexual Women Who are Making History The Savvy Ally is a book I will recommend again and again for its thoughtful approach to gaining knowledge, skill, and confidence. It's a much-needed tool in our box!--Kelly Clark, director of the Q Center, Binghamton University The Savvy Ally is a read for everyone. It is one of the best tutorials I've 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.--Joseph L. Searles, Corporate Diversity Relations Director, Excellus BlueCross BlueShield 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, Gainsburg's many years of 'operating in solidarity with' 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!--Matthew Burns, Dean of Students, University of Rochester

Author Information

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.

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