Caleb Laieski - Advocate for the LGBT Community

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Caleb Laieski
Advocate for the LGBT Community
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National Advocate

• Caleb Michael Laieski is an environment and
  civil rights activist, as well as a champion to
  the LGBT rights movement. He was bullied, dropped
  out of high school and quickly obtained his GED.
  After being bullied at the age of 16, he became a
  national advocate for anti-bullying, LGBT rights,
  and suicide prevention.

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Meeting with Barack Obama
This later resulted in Mr. Laieski meeting and
being thanked for his work by president Barack
obama and vice president Biden. He was included
in several speeches to the nation by the united
states department of health human services,
secretary Kathleen Sibelius. He was also the
grand marshal for both phoenix pride and palm
springs pride.
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Advisor on Youth and Diversity Issues

• Appointed to serve as the point of contact for
  all issues affecting youth and communities of
  diversity
• Drafted dozens of constituent letters related to
  education, youth, LGBT and diversity
• Coordinated logistics for Mrs. Stantons
  anti-bullying summit and anti-bullying
  initiative
• Mr. Laieski lived in Arizona at the time and at
  the age of 16, he took his fight to Washington,
  D.C., where he met with over 200 staffers and
  members of Congress. 

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Lawsuit Against Food and Drug

• When he turned 17, he was appointed to phoenix
  mayor Greg Stanton's staff as his youth and
  diversity liaison.
• At the age of 18, he then went onto become a
  9-1-1 dispatcher for Arlington county, Virginia.
  During this time, he filed a lawsuit against the
  united states food and drug administration (FDA)
  for their lifetime ban on gays from donating
  blood.

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Major Advocate for Public Safety

• Recently, Laieski joined the effort to challenge
  tennessees recently passed law that allows
  counselors and therapists religious beliefs to be
  an excuse for terminating care or referring
  clients because of moral objections to how the
  client identifies. In summary, this allows mental
  health professionals to put their own beliefs
  above and before the needs of their clients.
• Laieski continues to be a major advocate for
  public safety, the environment, and LGBT Rights

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Caleb Laieski
http//www.caleblaieski.com/
https//www.linkedin.com/in/caleblaieski