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