La Torre Cathy

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Cathy La Torre

Lawyer and activist

Cathy La Torre is a lawyer and human and civil rights activist, for years she has been leading battles for equal treatment and against all forms of violence. She founded and directs the law firm Wildside Human First. In 2008 she founded the European Center for Studies on Discrimination and was vice president of the Trans Identity Movement. In 2019 she was awarded The Good Lobby award in Brussels as the best pro-bono lawyer in Europe, and in 2020 the Coraggio Emanuela Loi award. Together with Guglielmo Scilla, she writes and produces the podcast “Invertiti – stories of gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals and transvestites who have reversed the course of history”. She has published No Cause Is Lost and There Are More Important Things (Mondadori). She has @avvocathy on social media. She was a guest of the Liberevento Cultural Festival in 2026 with the book “Tutte le volte che le donne hanno inventato qualcosa ma il merito se l’è preso un uomo” (Ed. Rizzoli).