“The direct or indirect killing of homosexuals is only the most extreme aspect of the repression of homosexuality, that is, the repression of the homosexual desire that is in everyone” (Mario Mieli).
The scent of orange blossom is gone, not even the scent of maritime pine, not even the blood of two sons of the Sicilian land who lost their lives for a "different" love, at the hands of those who, out of shame for something unknown, acted in the name and on behalf of an "honor" too often vaunted but far less truly internalized. Indifference, hypocrisy, malice, attitudes that kill human beings: prejudices against homosexuals still persist today.
Giarre showed no mercy toward these two young people who had expressed their love and desire to live it out. He tried in every way to erase the love of these two young people who loved each other. For years, he withheld testimony about a crime committed, and never—in these 31 years—has he attempted to uncover the truth. The Carabinieri's resolution of the case was convenient for everyone, even though some deputy prosecutors in charge of the investigation denounced the investigators' unclear modus operandi in the press.
But while Giarre hides, in defense of Giorgio and Toni, the idea of Don Marco Bisceglia, a Catholic priest from the dissident camp, rises imposingly from Palermo for "the affirmation of freedom, equality, civil rights, and awareness in human relationships" of homosexuals.
From that idea was born ArciGay with its Political Committees and Recreational Clubs, in which the entire Italian GLBTQI community has had the opportunity to be itself, always and in any case, wisely remembering that from the bloodshed of Giorgio Agatino Giammona and Antonio Galatola it was born and spread throughout the national territory.
