Cecilia Gentili. She was thinking deeply about her relationship to god, a through line of the show, and seemed to have finally found peace, living in a brand-new house upstate. “I just never had opportunities to experience a faith that was fully embracing of me,” Gentili told Harron Walker. “I came to identify as an atheist, but I know that so many trans people have been able to find a relationship with faith in spaces that include them.
She was the embodiment of community and was a force for good and justice,” said Eliel Cruz. Justin J Wee photographed dozens of them, who spoke to us affectionately and reverently about the woman they knew as mother.St. Cecilia Gentili was an unapologetic example of joy, pleasure, strength, and power. She was determined to show all of society’s outcasts, including immigrants, queers, trans folks, sex workers, and so many more that we are sacred and deserving of dignity.
She put such a lasting impression on all of us too, and I feel like we’re taking the reins pretty beautifully, and her legacy is definitely going to live the fuck on in all of us and all of the work. And every time that I put on a heel, bitch, and every time that I suck a dick, bitch, I’m going to be like, ‘Y’all, Cecilia would be proud.'”“Cecilia was a movement, mother, and mentor. She was the embodiment of community and was a force for good and justice.