New York archdiocese calls funeral for trans activist at cathedral ‘scandalous’ | New York

The Roman Catholic archdiocese of New York City has condemned a funeral service for transgender activist Cecilia Gentili at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral after congregants cheered her for being celebrated as “the mother of all whores”.

The packed funeral took place on Thursday, 10 days after the Argentinian-born Gentili, 52, died at her Brooklyn home.

Gentili was an activist and actor known for her advocacy on behalf of sex workers, as well as a self-professed atheist, drug addict and author of Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn’t My Rapist. Her cause of death has not…