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On 31 October 1980, the decomposed bodies of two young males, 25-year-old
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The incident led to the creation of the eastern
Sicilian chapter of Fuori! (Out!) - an acronym for Fronte Unitario Omosessuale Rivoluzionario Italiano (Italian Revolutionary Homosexual Unitary Front), a gay rights organization founded in Turin in 1971. A month later in Palermo, openly gay former
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Investigations soon led to the identification of the perpetrator - Toni's 13-year-old nephew
Francesco Messina, who was therefore unpunishable. He claimed that the victims themselves had ordered him to kill them, saying that they had threatened to shoot him if he didn't comply. However, two days
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Thus no culprit was ever identified, but it was assumed it had been the 13-year-old
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dedicated to gay culture, which soon spread all over Italy. It effectively laid the seed for the birth of the contemporary
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the village. Giorgio in particular was openly gay, after having been caught in a car by a local carabiniere with another young man at the age of 16 and therefore denounced, earning him the
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