Antonella Lerca Duda

Antonella Lerca Duda (born ) is a Romanian activist and sex worker. She is the founder of Sex Work Call, Romania's first sex workers' rights organisation. In 2020, she ran in the Romanian local elections, becoming the country's first trans election candidate.

Early life Lerca grew up in a Roma family with seven siblings. At fourteen years old, she was forced to marry a woman, but the marriage was not consummated. She was admitted to Socola Psychiatric Hospital, where she was diagnosed with gender dysphoria. after living in Italy for eleven years, Lerca returned to Romania to defend LGBTQ+ rights, In June of the same year, Lerca organised a sex workers' rights demonstration, the first of its kind in Romanian history, in front of the Parliament. Shortly after, Romani people and sex workers were represented for the first time at a pride march. As the first trans election candidate in Romanian history, she received international media coverage A fundraiser was organised to help her.

Her campaign, described by Komitid as "ultra-progressive for Romania", public services, ecology, and tackling corruption, discrimination, and violence against women (particularly public harassment and sexual violence). She also pledged construction of refuges for women with children.

However, Lerca did not receive the 1,700 signatures required to run in the election.