Leo Martello was an American Wiccan priest, gay rights activist and author who was a founding member of the Strega Tradition, a form of Wicca drawing on his own Italian heritage. In 1970 he founded the Witches International Craft Associates as a networking organization for Wiccans, and later founded the Witches Anti-Defamation League, later renamed the Alternative Religions Education Network, to campaign for the civil rights of Wiccans; he was initiated into Gardnerian Wicca in England in 1973.
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He was a founding member of the Strega Tradition, a form of the modern Pagan new religious movement of Wicca which drew upon his own Italian heritage.
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