Zaylore Stout serves as a fierce advocate on LGBT issues. Through his law firm, Zaylore Stout & Associates, LLC he’s represented HIV+ and transgender employees who were discriminated against at work to employers interested in proactively making their organizations more inclusive to diverse employees. Zaylore has volunteered through the LGBT Law Clinic and on the board for RECLAIM, an LGBTQIA+ nonprofit. He championed the passage of a Gender Inclusion Policy to protect transgender and gender non-conforming youth in St. Louis Park schools. In November 2017, he gave an impassioned speech at the Quorum’s National Coming Out Day Luncheon alongside Judy Shepard. His law firm was an inaugural recipient of the Business of Pride Award through the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal. You can read his reoccurring column in Lavender Magazine titled From A to Zee. Last year he published his first book, Our Gay History in Fifty States, which has since won many awards. Finally, he hosted a panel at the 2020 National LGBT Bar Association Lavender Law Conference titled “Extreme or Essential: Understanding the Shifting Legal Landscape of LGBT-specific Community Inclusion in U.S. School Curricula.”