Alfredo Ormando

Alfredo Ormando (San Cataldo, 15 December 1958 – Rome, 23 January 1998) was a gay Italian writer. On 13 January 1998 he set himself on fire in Piazza San Pietro (Rome) to protest the attitudes and policies of the Roman Catholic Church regarding homosexual Christians. After two policemen put out the flames, he was brought to Sant'Eugenio hospital in critical condition. He died there 11 days later.

External links

• "Per Alfredo Ormando" Ormando's suicide note.
• Il vergognoso silenzio vaticano su Alfredo Ormando (The shameful silence of the Vatican about Alfredo Ormando) Manifestazione commemorativa del 2004.
• Alfredo's Fire is a documentary by Open Eye Pictures about Ormando's death.
• Soulforce Alert, January 3, 2001