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Leo Martello
Leo Martello (1931–2000) was an American Wiccan, gay rights activist, and author. He drew heavily on his Italian heritage, teaching the Strega Tradition which was named after the Italian word for Witch.
Born to a working-class Italian-American family in Dudley, Massachusetts, he was raised Roman Catholic although became interested in Western esotericism as a teenager. He later claimed that when he was 21, relatives initiated him into an Italian witchcraft tradition; however this conflicts with other statements that he made, and there is no independent evidence to corroborate his claim. During the 1950s, he was based in New York City, where he worked as a graphologist and hypnotist. Beginning to publish books on paranormal topics in the early 1960s, in 1969 he publicly came out as Wiccan, and stated that he was involved in a New York coven.
He involved himself in gay rights activism after the 1969 Stonewall Riots, becoming a member of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF). Leaving GLF following an internal schism, he was a founding member of the Gay Activist Alliance (GAA) and authored a regular column, "The Gay Witch", for its newspaper, ''GAY''. In 1970 he founded the Witches International Craft Associates (WICA) as a networking organisation for Wiccans, and under its auspices organised a "Witch In" in Central Park at Halloween 1970, despite opposition from the New York City Parks Department. To campaign for the civil rights of Wiccans, he then founded the Witches Anti-Defamation League (later the Alternative Religions Education Network). In 1973, he visited England, there being initiated into Gardnerian Wicca by the Gardnerian High Priestess Patricia Crowther.
==Early life==
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