[3] 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 Sicilian derogatory nickname "puppu 'ccô bullu" ("licensed homosexual").
[4] When journalists and photographers from all over Italy arrived at the scene to publicize the tragedy, they were met by the town's sense of omertà, not wanting to be associated with the story of a homosexual couple.
[8] It effectively laid the seed for the birth of the contemporary Italian homosexual movement, after the first experiences of associationism made in Rome in the 1960s.
Shortly thereafter, in Bologna for the first time, there was official recognition of a gay group by the institutions with the granting by the City Council of a venue to the association Il Cassero.
On 9 May 2022, the City of Giarre affixed a memorial plaque dedicated to the two victims at the entrance of the "Domenico Cucinotta" municipal library.