CECILIA GENTILI — 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Health Center, co-founded DecrimNY, an organization which successfully decriminalized sex work in New York and repealed the “Walking while trans law”, and founded Trans Equity Consulting.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.