[1] Marco Bisceglia was a parish priest of the Church of the Sacred Heart of Lavello, in the province of Potenza.
It was not well seen by the Church and the Christian Democrats due to its non-conformism and sympathies expressed for the Italian Communist Party.
[2][3] In reality, the real objective of the two journalists, as years later declared in an interview with Piergiorgio Paterlini in his book Matrimoni, was to find a pretext to involve him in a scandal and to have the "communist priest" suspended in divinis.
[5] And in 1980, on his initiative, with the only help of a young gay conscientious objector at the beginning of his political career, Nichi Vendola saw the light of the first homosexual circle inside the ARCI of Palermo of the historical left, which until then had been inattentive, if not hostile, to the homosexual liberation movement.
His figure has been commemorated several times by the exponents of the gay movement in this context, and in the first months of 2014, it was constituted as an association Arcigay Basilicata, entitled precisely to Marco Bisceglia.