Cecilia Gentili was best known as an Argentine-American advocate for the rights of transgender people and sex workers. she was born in Argentina, she moved to New York City. 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Community Health Center, co-founded DecrimNY, an organization that successfully decriminalized sex work in New York and repealed the “Walking while trans law”, and founded Trans Equity Consulting.
Cecilia Gentili filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s removal of non-discrimination protections for gender identity in the Affordable Care Act.
Cecilia Gentili husband
At the time of her death, Cecilia Gentili split her time between Brooklyn with her partner, whom she had been with since the mid-2010s, and her home in upstate New York.
Cecilia Gentili children
Cecilia Gentili does not have any children.
Cecilia Gentili parents
Cecilia Gentili was born in 1972, and raised in the Argentinian city of Gálvez, Santa Fe. Her parents were Italian and Argentinian. She was sexually abused from six until ten years old by a neighbor. She came out as gay at 12 years old and described her mother as “kind of open-minded”, her father as “in absolute denial”, and said her brother had difficulty accepting her.
Cecilia Gentili’s grandmother, an Indigenous woman from the countryside, was “the only person who truly was open to a conversation about gender”, and she attended Baptist services with her as a child.
Cecilia Gentili siblings
Cecilia Gentili has a brother whose name was not mentioned.
Cecilia Gentili attended both Baptist and Catholic services during her life, but found the experiences traumatic and came to identify as an atheist. In November 2023, she said in an interview that she was exploring her relationship with religion.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
