CECILIA GENTILI [1972 – 2024]

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“Cecilia Gentili was an Argentine-American advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers. Born in Argentina, she moved to New York City. She held leadership positions at the LGBTQ HIV/AIDS care nonprofits GMHC and APICHA, co-founded a free clinic for sex workers at Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, co-founded DecrimNY, an organization that successfully decriminalized sex work in New York and repealed the “Walking while trans law”, and founded Trans Equity Consulting. Gentili also filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of non-discrimination protections for gender identity in the Affordable Care Act.” [Source]

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