The Savvy Ally

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate 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, including:·Updated and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language·What to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you·LGBTQ+ etiquette and common bloopers to avoid·Techniques for respectfully and effectively navigating difficult conversations·Addressing common questions and concerns·Suggested actions for creating more inclusive spaces·Sustaining our ally actions and taking care of ourselvesThis book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as parents who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don'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.

“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.”

"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."

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 was surprised to see that a book about LGBTQ+ was written by a cisgender straight woman. (I learned the term cisgender from the book.) . . . I think she did a wonderful job both explaining all the confusing terms as well as explaining how anyone not LGBTQ+ can be an ally or advocate for those who are...I highly recommend this book to everyone.

Jeannie Gainsburg has worked as a professional ally to the LGBTQ+ communities for 15 years at the Out Alliance in Rochester, NY, first as the Education and Outreach Coordinator and, for the past 5 years, as the Education Director. In the latter role, she was in charge of writing and creating all of the agency’s educational curriculum, professional manuals, and handouts. 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. For 8 years, in her volunteer time, she ran the Alliance's bike ride fundraiser, Ride For Pride. She grew a small ride that brought in $4,000 in its first year into a $64,000 fundraiser that became her agency’s most successful fundraising event. Jeannie has a BA in Psychology from Brown University and a Masters in Social Work and Social Services from Bryn Mawr College. 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. The Savvy Ally is her first book.

The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate 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, including: Updated and relevant information on identities and LGBTQ+ language What to say and what not to say when someone comes out to you LGBTQ+ etiquette and common bloopers to avoid Techniques for respectfully and effectively navigating difficult conversations Addressing common questions and concerns Suggested actions for creating more inclusive spaces *Sustaining our ally actions and taking care of ourselves This book will be useful for teachers, counselors, social workers, nurses, medical technicians and college professors, as well as parents who wants to be supportive of their LGBTQ+ child, but don'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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