The Savvy Ally: A Guide for Becoming a Skilled LGBTQ+ Advocate

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; andTechniques 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