A lawmaker in Europe has quit his role after police caught him fleeing a gay sex party in Brussels, Belgium.
József Szájer, 59, is a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for Hungary’s ruling, right-wing, Fidesz Party. The Parliament members meet in Brussels.
On the weekend, local media reported police broke up what they described as a “gang bang”, or “legs in the air” party, above a bar in the city on Friday evening.
Police apprehended one man allegedly fleeing through a window and trying to escape along guttering.
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It now turns out that man was Szájer.
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Because of local COVID restrictions, gatherings of more than four people are prohibited. Around 20 men were caught at the party, and police also seized ecstasy pills. Local press report at least two other diplomats were present. Police fined each of the men €250 (approximately $300) for attending the event.
The Fidesz Party is led by Hungary’s Prime Minister, Viktor Orban. It is known for its conservative and anti-LGBTQ views. Earlier this month, Fidesz lawmakers drafted legislation to ban gay people from adopting children. It also recently voted to ban the legal recognition of trans people.
Szájer has been a leading figure in the party, helping to found it in 1988 and serving as its Vice President from 1996 until 2003. He was reportedly one of three of its politicians who helped to re-write the Hungarian constitution in 2011 to define “the institution of marriage as between a man and a woman.”
On Sunday, Szájer surprised many by announcing his resignation from the European Parliament. He said at the time it was due to “increasing mental strain” and needing a “period of reflection.”
Yesterday, when news broke that he had been at Friday’s party, Szájer issued a statement and apologized for, “a personal failing” in attending what he described as a “house party” and ignoring COVID restrictions.
Local media have alleged when stopped by cops, Szájer tried to use his status as an MEP to claim immunity from prosecution. Szájer has denied this. In his blog post he said: “After the police asked for my identity – since I did not have ID on me – I declared that I was a MEP. The police continued the process and finally issued an official verbal warning and transported me home.”
He also denied taking drugs or knowing anything about the drugs found by police in his backpack.
“I did not use drugs. I offered the police to make an instant test, but they did not do it. According to the police they found an ecstasy pill, but it is not mine, I have no knowledge of who and how it placed.
“I deeply regret for violating the COVID restrictions, it was irresponsible on my part. I am ready to stand for the fine that occurs.”
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Szájer is married to a woman and they have a grown-up daughter: “I apologize to my family, to my colleagues, to my voters,” he continued. “I ask them to evaluate my misstep on the background of thirty years of devoted and hard work. The misstep is strictly personal, I am the only one who owes responsibility for it. I ask everyone not to extend it to my homeland, or to my political community.”
ChrisGMN
So….Hungary AND thirsty?
barryaksarben
lol
Wild_Puss
He fit through a window?
ricdardc1
EVASION. –(evita) Don’t Cry for Me HUNGary. The Truth Is I’m a Raging QUEEN……..
irbaboon
He looks like a damn rat!
blackhook
Yep he is one odd-looking freak, that’s for sure! Wonder what creatures are living in that beard…
JessPH
He’s a bear
ingyaom
Looks like he got Giuliani’s hair dye on his beard.
Cam
As has been proven over and over, if somebody is a rabid anti-LGBTQ bigot, there is a very good chance they’re a self hating closet case.
GJ
You are absolutely correct! Those closeted idiots are the most anti-gay. They are worse than straight people legislating against us!
Donston
A lot of people who become politicians or religious leaders do so because of extreme megalomania or extreme insecurities. So, it should never be surprising that what many preach and mandate doesn’t reflect their life.
While we all should know that having sex with someone doesn’t mean you respect and support them. Those two things often don’t align. Hell, there are guys who are entirely on the homo end of the sexual, romantic, emotional, commitment spectrum who contend with internalized homophobia and are homophobic and/or anti-gay their whole lives. None of this should ever be a shock. But instead of confronting their traumas, resentments, confusions, contradictions, mental health struggles they become duplicitous leaders.
trsxyz
Totally agree on what’s often (but thankfully not always…) behind the motivation to become a politician or religious leader.
lather
And plenty of straight men who hate women but continue to use them strictly for sexual pleasure, for themselves.
JD17
Anyone know how to say Schadenfreude in Hungarian?
Hungay
Káröröm
Mister P
People who are secure in their own sexuality are not worried about the sexuality of others.
NateOcean
Don’t you just hate it when the damn police break up an after-midnight gay gang bang of two-dozen men?
Just sayin’
drumstick
You are so right…! People always forget about the victims in all of this. I’m sure it’s not easy to stage an orgy in Hungary.
519
@drumstick
Actually it’s super easy, barely an incovenience!
jerkinns
It’s consistently the conservative/religious right-wingers, regardless which country or continent. It’s become a stereotype of their kind.
tjr101
As expected, not a single mention of the nature of the party in his “ apology.” Only that he’s sorry about violating Covid restrictions. Typically right-wing gaslighting.
hansniemeijer
Hungary and Poland, two member states of the European Union that are horrible when it comes to the rights of LGBTQI+, women, refugees
519
We are horrible when it comes to just about everything. When I was about 17-18 I didn’t understand when my relatives told me that they felt like being Hungarian is something to be ashamed of abroad, and I still believe that at that time (13 years ago) we hadn’t done anything that we should have been ashamed of. But I’ve been ashamed of being Hungarian even in Hungary for years now thanks to our current government.
RandomGuy
Dumb slut.
drumstick
Best comment of them all.
ShiningSex
and he thought “glory holes” were a way to talk to the guy in the next stall.
BlueStateMan
Guys who put their “legs in the air” for that nasty looking man must be desperate. And it would definitely be a hard pass if he had HIS legs in the air!
Kangol2
@tjr101 is correct. The article doesn’t mention that this gross right-wing hypocrite, a founder and leader of Hungary’s far-right, authoritarian Fidesz Party, wrote and pushed for an anti-gay marriage provision in Hungary’s new ultraconservative constitution (it passed) and that he and Fidesz have been extremely anti-LGBTQ/gay in their rhetoric.
barryaksarben
fckn assholes who are so self hating they pass homophobic laws. hope he is arrested back in good ole hungry
519
@barryaksarben
Our government is stealing not only the money of the Hungarian people but the whole EU as well and the authorities do nothing, so… no. He had to leave his party and that’s about it.
drumstick
It just goes to show that even though some men are bottoms, it doesn’t mean that they have a bottom. Paging Lady G….Is Lindsey Graham in the house?
Alex_S
He just wanted to study the enemy in his natural enviroment.
Doug
I love to read articles about how antigay people like this get caught, and there are so many of them.
I did laugh, however, at the reference to the party being a “legs in the air” event!
marshal phillips
This wasn’t his first rodeo; but the first time caught.
chopper
He looks like the type of daddy that secretly likes to get fisted
fur_hunter
It’s these LYING, HYPOCRITICAL, F UCKTARD, PIECES OF S HIT that totally PISS me off. They are such A SS HOLES!!!
trojanboy
Self-loathing must be a real drag.
James
HE WAS AN UGLY PATHETIC POS BEFORE AND NOW HE IS EVEN UGLIER. MAY HE ROT.
cuteguy
It’s just reprehensible when closeted lawmakers not only do nothing to help lgbtq but in fact tries to hurt us when they have the power to help. Just ask Lindsay Graham and Aaron Schock. There’s a special place in hell for a$$ holes like them. It’s one thing to sit by and do nothing, but to try and hurt lgbtq people when ur one of them is unconscionable. This queen needs serious help and should resign from living
tomch52
He’s 59yo & thought he was attending a “House Party?” What 59yo man would use that terminology! And a $300.00 penalty with the potential of spreading covid-19 to countless innocent people!
yaletownman
It’s no surprise. From Jesus to Jung we’ve been told what we judge in another we judge in ourselves. What’s really intriguing to me is how those that follow the hateful, judgmental thinking like this character espouses will do everything in their power to deny, dismiss and minimize the behavior of their own.
Right wing extremism truly is spiritual bankruptcy.
8millionandcounting
You didn’t own anything.
You ran like the little b*tch coward you are and then pulled a Reese Weatherspoon “don’t you know who I am”
fredk
the biggest critics are the worst hypocrites. another pathetic self loathing closet case. he’s revolting inside & out.
Consider This
Whoops!
charmin88
The problem is these hypocrites get let off WAY to easy. He spent years hurting and destroying the lives of countless lgbtq people. Making their lives a living hell just to get caught in an act of what he calls immoral. He needs to be prosecuted and pay severe. That goes for the other clown aaron schock
jimsweden
27 naked men. To be precis.
Glynn
His natural habitat is clearly Narnia, so he should have found refuge in the back of the closet rather than exiting via the bathroom window and shimmying down the drain pipe. He may be an unattractive troll but there is a market for that look – shocking isn’t it – YUK.
Pii
hope he had to climb out that window naked
JRinDallas
Terribly shocked that he was ever let into a gay orgy in the first place! Ugh.