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 Cecilia Gentili, ‘Pose’ Actress and LGBTQ Activist, Dies at 52

Gentili performed habitual persona Miss Orlando in FX's loved 'Pose.'

Cecilia Gentili, cherished Pose actress and longtime trans activist, has died. She used to be 52.

A publish on Gentili’s Instagram introduced her loss of life Tuesday afternoon. “Our loved Cecilia Gentili exceeded away this morning to proceed staring at over us in spirit,” the announcement read. “Please be mild with every different and love one every other with ferocity.”

A publish on her Instagram Story that equal day introduced plans for a memorial held at New York City’s Judson Memorial Church on Wednesday evening. “The first of many services,” the publish read.

Gentili used to be born in Argentina in 1972. She performed Miss Orlando, a New York City lady who furnished discounted plastic surgery, in FX’s Pose, which ran from 2018 to 2021. Her co-star, Dominique Jackson, posted a tribute on Tuesday, writing she used to be “deeply saddened” with the aid of Gentili’s “departure.”

“Even in dying you are a pressure to be reckoned with, your legacy one of movement, love and compassion unapologetic and true,” Jackson continued. “I thank you dearly for ALL the work you have done. You sacrificed you boldly telling your fact and residing it and for that you have modified and influenced many lives and the world.”

Outside of Pose, Gentili was once additionally a lifelong activist for the LGBTQ community and posted writer of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist.

In 2021, she established the Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, which offers fitness care and associated offerings for New York’s LGBTQ communities, regardless of someone’s capability to pay. The fitness middle multiplied to encompass Gentili’s namesake, Cecilia’s Occupational Inclusion Network, which affords free fitness care for intercourse workers.

Before that, she served as the Director of Policy at GMHC, the world’s main issuer of HIV/AIDS prevention, and labored with Trans Equity Consulting, AIDS Institute, the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Funders for LGBTQ Issues and more. She was once additionally a founding member of Decrim NY, a coalition working towards decriminalization of intercourse workers.

On Tuesday, GLAAD additionally posted a tribute to Gentili, writing that she was once “a pillar in the trans community, a devoted advocate, a hanging actress on the hit TV application Pose, an notable journalist and a intercourse worker.”

Per GLAAD’s post, Gentili’s one-woman exhibit Red Ink used to be slated to make a comeback at the Public Theater this April.