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ALLIES AND ADVOCATES: Five steps to being a stronger ally and promoting student success 

08-04-2023 12:23 PM

ALLIES AND ADVOCATES: Five steps to being a stronger ally and promoting student success
by Craig M. McGill and Wendy Kay Schindler

Although academic advisors who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer/questioning, asexual (LGBTQA+) have a vested interest in fighting against the marginalization of their community, it is crucial to enlist the support of dominant social group members as allies because they have more societal power. But what is an ally? Is it someone who is heterosexual or cisgender who is simply tolerant of LGBTQA+ people? What are the roles and responsibilities that come along with being an ally? Is it enough to simply identify as one?
This article is an adaptation of an excerpt from Advising Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer College Students, edited by Craig McGill and Jennifer Joslin and co-published by Stylus Publishing and NACADA.
(Talking Stick, November+December 2021) 

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