The truth comes out! Twenty-seven year old Austrian politician Stefan Petzner admitted this week to having a long-term affair with his recently deceased boss, Jörg Haider (seen in the foreground).
Though it’s long been rumored, the murmurs of Haider’s homo ways were revived last week after photographers spotted him at a gay bar just minutes before he was involved in a fatal car crash.
Taking Haider’s spot as leader of the ultra-right Alliance for the Future of Austria this week, Petzner told a radio host that he and Haider began their relationship a few years ago, but promises that Haider’s wife knew about their goings on – and didn’t give a hoot:
[Petzner] effectively outed himself as the deceased’s gay lover while being interviewed on an Austrian radio breakfast show.
“I had to go to him. I had to go to him,” Mr Petzner said in his highly emotional interview as he recalled how he rushed to the hospital where the dead body of 52-year-old Haider was lying after his fatal crash in early October.
Admitting that he felt a “magnetic attraction” for Haider, whom he met five years ago while working as a cosmetics reporter, Mr Petzner insisted: “We had a relationship that went far beyond friendship. Jörg and I were connected by something truly special. He was the man of my life.”
He insisted that Mr Haider’s widow, Claudia did not object to his relationship: “She loved him as a woman. He loved her as a man. I loved him in a completely different and personal way. She understood that,” Mr Petzner said.
Other sources claim, however, that Mrs. Haider hated that the men spent so much time together.
Meanwhile, Alliance leaders have canceled Petzner’s planned interviews in hopes that the scandal will blow over, a prospect that’s looking less and less likely.
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naprem
And of course, these were the ones who are ultra right-wing, the ones who would happily imprison or kill the lot of us.
CHURCHILL-Y
Petzner is such a cutie!
It pains me to learn how much he suffered when Haider died. He’s young and a real looker with a great intellect to boot, I’m sure he’ll overcome this tragedy in his life.
I don’t doubt for a second the possibility of some criminal action behind Haider’s death. I just wouldn’t put past anything to the radicals and foreign terrorist that have infiltrated the EU. Now that he’s taking over Petzner needs to really be careful with his security. I would hate to see such a beautiful man hurt.
seitan-on-a-stick
And Germans make such good quality cars. Was it Angela Merkel? The Nazi Pope? Hitler from Hell? Heidi Klum putting on make-up? Enquiring minds want to rubber-neck!
Stefan
I am of 100% Austrian ancestry (me and the California governator), so my remarks may be biased, but I think that Haider was a closet, fascist chicken-hawk.
In Austria, people, although they disapprove, can understand that. Also, Bruno, the Austrian fashionista understands.
Reading the quote I don’t think Herr Petzner thinks he is admitting to a sexual relationship. When the photos of Haider snuggling up with the beefcake chicken hustlers appeared in Das Bild, it was Petzner who said they only demonstrated Herr Haider’s concern for young people nothing more.
Its all like a Visconti movie.
Peter Pan
@ CHURCHILL-Y – You are spot on! A lot of people are waking up though. I think Mr Haider’s death will have exactly the opposite long-term effect his killers desired. Mr Haider was assassinated for speaking the truth!
Btw. I don’t think he was gay though. This is just a worldwide smear campaign (now arrived at Queerty) to move the focus away from the assassination. He was actually married with two children. Just because someone goes to a gay club every so often with some friends doesn’t mean he is gay, but it does mean he is tolerant! My brother often joins me when I go to ‘my’ clubs. He is not gay!
SlowMo
Stefan Petzner’s previous job was as a “cosmetics reporter”. How butch! (s)He must have been on top of all the latest Stormtrooper makeup trends.
Jennifer
Peter Pan is a really good name for you, if you believe what you just posted. I mean, honestly. The guy is gayer than a picnic basket.
Anonymous
What a surprise and a novelty: a closet-case fascist.
No great loss to Austria nor Europe.
seitan-on-a-stick
Peter (bringing my unwelcome straight sibling) Pan, I hate it when Gays bring straights to clubs. They are NOT welcome and have 90% of the world to play in!
Sorry for the German jokes, but I’m fully prepared to make Govinator jokes at the worst Austrian export since Adolf.
Peter Pan
@ seitan-on-a-stick – The pope is actually a Zionist (so was the previous pope). The Hitler youth thing is just a cover for popo ratzinger, and a good one at that (while it lasted)! Didn’t you know that?
The real Nazis are right there in the US, in the Bush family and Rockefeller-Rothschild clan. Check it out.
Re who assassinated Mr Haider? Who knows? The world is full of psychopathic scumbag spy agencies who’ll take a life without losing a nights sleep. But maybe you know that.
Rob Moore
Peter, Peter, Peter. Just because one goes to a gay bar doesn’t mean absolutely that one is gay; nevertheless, I can’t recall meeting a straight man at gay bars. A few straight women, but no men.
The fact he was married with two children doesn’t mean he isn’t gay. I came out to my wife twenty-three years ago. We stayed married, but I am not bisexual or hetersexual in my orientation. We also have two grown children and two very young grandchildren.
Herr Petzner looks neither 27 nor straight. I’m sure he was 27 sometime in his life, but straight? Not bloody likely.
Rob Moore
As a side note, if someone was trying to assasinate him, I seriously doubt the method would involve getting him drunk then making him drive at a high rate of speed. Even fascist swine die in accidents. Who would care enough to kill him? Even Hitler didn’t knock off his very gay bear enforcer Ernst Röhm until he helped Hitler gain absolute power.
Peter Pan
@ seitan-on-a-stick who said ‘Peter (bringing my unwelcome straight sibling) Pan, I hate it when Gays bring straights to clubs.’
I’m sooooo sorry 🙂
Peter Pan
@ Rob Moore who said ‘I came out to my wife twenty-three years ago. We stayed married, but I am not bisexual or hetersexual in my orientation. We also have two grown children and two very young grandchildren.’
How DISHONEST! Who’s life did you or do you live? Not your own I’m sure! How sad. Mr Haider lived and died for what he believed in. He had integrity (look it up) and balls (look it up).
I have no interest in politics but admire people who stand up for what they believe is right and the truth.
I hate cowards and people who sit on the fence!
CHURCHILL-Y
Peter Pan, the posters here are just trying to mess and ridicule you, you do know that?
They have a knee jerk reaction to opposite views that borderlines into hatred for people of the ideological and racial group of Petzner and Haider.
If you’re in Austria I sincerely wish you the best and hope your people take control of their nation and their borders, if you don’t get behind and both support and put into office people like Haider and Petzner you will turn into us, and just look where we are at here in America, lawless borders, crime ridden ghettos, homophobia and community organizer hustlers run amok, illegal mortgages to minorities that have brought us into an economic crisis and our concept of free speech about to go into the trash by political correctness. I do believe that although Europe has allowed an uncontrolled migratory policy over the years to affect it’s way of life you still have a better chance of correcting your errors and saving yourselves from total destruction from outside forces.
John
I have tried to find a logical coherence or even some sense in the string of comments and I can’t.
Either I’m running a fever or the inmates have taken over the asylum.
Peter Pan
@ John – Fever! DEFINITELY!!! Take two aspirins and go straight (blush) to bed. Call me in the morning if you are still confused and don’t recognize yourself in the mirror.
Dr Double P.
Rob Moore
Peter, sweety. Dishonesty? You ask whose life I lived then state it wasn’t mine. Well whose life was it. Everyone who knows me knows about me. My wife and I have a lovely relationship. Our children love both of us, and yes, they know, too. Our grandchildren are beautiful and funny. They make life even more vivid, now that I am older. Mr. Haider stood up for his beliefs which involved wanting to persecute groups he didn’t think belonged in his Austria so did Hitler and George Bush, but I admire neither man.
SlowMo
Hey Peter Pan,
Please catch the Red Eye back to Never Neverland ASAP!
seitan-on-a-stick
Peter Pan (or is it Matt again?)- Who were you last week? We’ve had a few crazies drop-off now that we look like having an Obama-slide! You write like someone with voices in their head or a distracting drug habit OR, you are just plain CRAZY!
Rob Moore – You sound like a very wholesome person with great values after making a personal decision later in your life. Stay a great person!
Churchill-y – 13 days until you have to reach for anti-depressants. Racist loser!
Butterpantz
This reminds me of a friend’s trip to the Med with a barefoot/bareback cruise. He was Jewish by name and the entire trip, a couple from Austria berated him daily and tried to hook up with him nightly. He said it was like a nazi porn/vegas show.
Charles Merrill
Looking at those two I am thinking ovens, skin lampshades, gold teeth fillings from 6 million gassed Jews, and other atrocities. Weazels.
afrolito
If that guy is 27, he looks like shit.
Peter Pan
@ No. 22 · Charles Merrill – Did you know Bush found WMD in ‘Eyeraq’ and 9/11 was committed by a cripple called bin Laden? Or that the ‘Eyeraqis’ pulled Kuwaiti babies (sob) out of incubators (horror) and left them to die on the floor and that’s why Daddy Bush started the first ‘Eyeraq’ invasion and sacrificed many US boys (not to mention the ‘Eyeraqis’, no one ever does)? Or that the AIDS virus was found first in chimpanzees in Africa, in 1983, and that many gay people got infected with the virus in New York in the same year?
Inform yourself. rense.com is a good place to start.
bobito
They ran tests on the remains of Haider’s car, and found no indication of tampering. They ran tests on the remains of Haider and found a blood alcohol level more than 3 times the legal intoxication level. But of course, he was a politician, so it had to be a hit job…
As for his speaking the truth, I suppose here or there, he accidentally managed to make a public statement that wasn’t an outright lie on occasion. I’m pretty sure that Mr. Petzner’s statements were not intended as an “admission of an affair” with Haider. That would be political suicide within his party, which is why Haider was married in the first place. There are certainly other factual inaccuracies in the article. No politician in Austria could be openly homosexual and expect to hold much political authority – the country is predominantly Catholic.
Jaroslaw
Rob Moore (and in ‘defense’ of Peter Pan) – if you are not bisexual or heterosexual how did you end up married with children? You state yourself “you came out to your wife” so that means she didn’t know you were Gay when you married? Sounds dishonest to me. Does your wife get to have outside heterosexual relationships since you apparently have outside Gay relationships? I’m not judging your relationship in a “moral way” – if you are both happy, go for it. It just seems for the word marriage to mean something, it can’t encompass every possible arrangement, yours being but one example. You might be a great person, still I wonder why your wife wouldn’t prefer a straight man who is really into HER.
Elvy
people. my people…..Haider was openly gay. Get your facts “straight.” that was always the supreme irony: openly gay and an ultra right-wing, anti-immigrant politico who stoked fear and hatred. But at least he wasn’t a hypocrite – no Larry Craig cocksucker was our Jorg; he openly discussed his sexuality.
tallskin
Hmmm, just to pour some cold water over proceedings here folks, but according to the man’s Wikkipedia entry his parents were fully paid up members of the nazi party and his father fought for the nazis enthusiastically.
The nazis killed gays. Britain fought the nazis for 6 years and a lot of people got killed in the process. So, being a bit of a nationalist Brit and a gay there is no way I can like this man or his bf no matter how cute or horny they are. Nazis and nazism invariably lead to death camps and horror, and gays being purged and then murdered.
I really have never understood how gays can be nazis, no matter how seductive the uniforms and the all male dorms might be, and how tempting the dislike of immigrants is.
But having said that I am not any less critical of black and muslim immigrant behaviour here in Europe!!
blake
Are some of you people f*cked up in the head or what?
This guy was a frickin’ neo-nazi and you are mourning his death?
Read a frickin’ book:
“Jörg Haider’s antisemitism is an important case-study not only because of his personal importance in the Austrian and all-European political scene, but because it is a typical example of postwar antisemitism in the German cultural sphere. Although several prominent researchers dealt with various unique characteristics of postwar antisemitism[1] , or to be more blunt, of post-Holocaust antisemitism, this form of antisemitism, still changing and crystallizing, lacks a coherent theory, with academically accepted definitions and terminology. [2] With this paper, I therefore hope to contribute to formalizing such a theory.” http://sicsa.huji.ac.il/acta18.htm
“The “Freedom Party”, a threat to freedom?
“We guarantee to stop the foreign influx” and “Austria first” were slogans of the Austrian “Freedom Party” (Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs, FPÖ) for the national elections (October 1999) in which it became the second strongest party in the parliament. The outcry in foreign countries was big, especially in the Jewish community. Israel threatened to cut off its diplomatic connections if Haider would join the new government. Haider said: “I am a democratic politician and I never violated democratic principles. I have never sympathised with the ideas of the Nazi-regime. There must have been misunderstandings. I am a patriot who promotes Austrian interests”. He pretends to be a man who never sympathised with Nazi ideas, but he has praised Hitlres orderly employment policies.
The “Freedom Party” founded as a liberal party. It exists since World War II. Despite this liberal basis it always had a xenophobic and revisionist wing. In 1990 the vicepresident of the Austrian republic of Steiermark (a member of the “Freedom Party”) called Auschwitz before a court “a monument of lies”.
In 1986 the “Freedom Party” was taken over by the xenophobic wing under Jörg Haider. Since then the “Freedom Party” agitates against foreigners and “the established corrupt politicians”. In Vienna for example the “Freedom Party” accused the city council of prefering foreigners in council flats. Last year they proposed to introduce an “A-card”. A special identification card for foreigners living in Austria. Doesn’t that remind us of the triangles or the yellow star?
Haider represents himself and his party as the new “clean alternative”, the new power for Austria, the anti-corruption man. Despite some larger financial scandals in 1998 he still managed to represent a clean image, and his success is growing.”
I have joked in the past calling Churhill-y “Church-nazi,” but I joke no more. Church-nazi’s comments about minorities echo the horrific comments of the Nazis. Church-nazi has fully earned the suffix of “nazi” with words.
Haider was an anti-semite. Talk of murder and assassination is nothing more than subtle anti-semitism that is fashionable in some European circles and present in the works of Americans like Pat Buchanan.
The irony of gay men ass-kissing these xenophobes is strikingly profound.
Queerty Staff,
I am shocked by your continued acceptance of the hateful anti-semitic and racist comments that thrive here on this site. People like Church-nazi represent the worst of the net but unlike other sites, you refuse to take a stand.
Reading many of the comments here, I wonder if I am reading Stormfront because of the defense of a known anti-semite.
Queerty staff, you do nothing to counter the festering racist pit that your comments sections have become. Freedom of speech is a great thing but so are terms of service! Other sites, like Towleroad, take a stand against bigots, why doesn’t your site? Is it because your racially charged stories draw a large number of clicks? Making a buck off a controversial story is one thing, but you folks seem to constantly push these kinds of stories.
Help me understand how Church-nazi’s comments don’t reflect the same blame the minorities ethos that the Nazis used against the Jews?
Enough is enough! Take a stand. Haider was an anti-semite whose career profited from hate against the people that another Austrian was only too happy to find a “solution” for their otherness. Why did you not provide any background material on this man’s hateful past?
My god. Idiots in these comments are mourning this vile man!
Again, Queerty staff, how do you sit by and let this go on?
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/45643,opinion,anti-semitism-rears-its-head-again-denis-macshane
“…He was in the mainstream of modern anti-semitism with its banalisation or denial of the Holocaust, its contempt for Israel, and its belief that secret Jewish lobbies have too much power.”
Whether we talk about the Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, or the biracial Rhineland “Bastards,” over 12 million human beings were slaughtered because of European racism. You, the editors and staff of Queerty, have a responsibility to set context as to who Haider was and the tradition into which fell in the European political spectrum.
Journalism is about objectivity but it is also about taking a stand at some point against great evil.
Peter Pan
@ Blake – You have a STRANGE understanding of FREEDOM OF SPEECH! Nowhere does Queerty say they agree or disagree with the comments posted on Queerty. It’s a blog where DIFFERENT opinions are posted. WHAT’S WRONG WITH THAT?
Re your ‘…its contempt for Israel, and its belief that secret Jewish lobbies have too much power…’ watch this and weep:
If Americans only knew:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSp-oIOhq00
Burning Conscience: Israeli Soldiers Speak Out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37MFa7ZKQWo
bobito
Elvy – Haider was absolutely not “openly” gay. Probably it was no secret among his inner circle. When the conservative party was losing ground to Haider’s (basically neo-fascist) party some years back, they began referring to him in their campaign as “finocchio”, which is a southern-Austrian slur for homo, but not directly enough for Haider to sue, which he most certainly would have done. Yes, he was a hypocrite and a racist and an intensely anti-semitic Nazi apologist. You are correct, however, that his hypocrasy never reached the levels of Larry Craig, who thinks that by pushing another piece of marriage-defining-and-protecting legislation he can convince people that he couldn’t possibly be a toilet troll.
Bill Perdue
Haider was a fascist because he’s a racist and an islamophobe.
The good news is that he’s dead, but the bad news is that he wasn’t executed by an international war crimes tribunal as a fascist, a Nazi, an islamophobe and a promoter of mass murder. The only good fascist is a dead fascist.
In today’s political climate racist islamophobes do the dirty work for Haliburton, BP and Texaco by providing a racist justification for their genocidal oil piracy in Iraq. Just as anti-Semites like the Cliveden Set provided cover for Hitler’s aggression.
The terms fascist and islamophobe are identical. They took their gun sights off Jews, who have no oil, and retargeted on Muslims, who do. Just as Haider was paid to do.
The English rulers, who invented the slave trade, committed mass murder in North America, India, Ireland and all over Africa, and who fought the Opium wars with China to force them to import Opium are the one’s who taught Hitler how to be a mass murderer, an imperialist and a war criminal. They wrote the manual.
bobito
Uh, Bill… Haider was pals with Saddam Hussein, and visited with him in Iraq prior to the invasion. He didn’t have his sights off the Jews. He was a major anti-Semite and Nazi apologist. He didn’t like Islamists in Austria, or any other foreigners.
But you’re absolutely right, it is good news that he’s dead.
Bill Perdue
Uh, bobito… Islamophobia has long since replaced anti-Semitism as the dominant form of European racism and is closely associated with anti-African racism in the EU and anti-African American racism in the US.
A New Europe: Anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and the Nation-State by Sharif Islam is the title of a review of Matti Bunzl’s work entitled “Between Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia: Some Thoughts on the New Europe,” published in American Ethnologist (Vol. 32, No. 4, November 2005). It appeared in the leftist magazine Monthly Review August 2006 issue. Sorry I can’t provide a link but some security gizmo at Queerty goes batshit when I do.
Sharif Islam says
Stuffy and academic but you get the point. Secretary-General Kofi Annan made the same point at the UN seminar on “Confronting Islamophobia: Education for Tolerance and Understanding†in 2004. AS does the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia (EUMC) in their report Muslims in the European Union: Discrimination and Islamophobiaâ€.
It’s true that scum like Haider are virulently anti-Semitic but for several years the main focus of racism in the EU has been islamophobia, and in Germany, France and England that’s led to a huge increase in hate crimes against Muslim youth. And we all know that in Bosnia-Herzegovinian it led to genocide against Muslims in the 1990’s.
I’m not surprised that Haider opportunistically visited Hussein, although I doubt they were pals. Anti-Semites often try, sometimes successfully, to distort the entirely legitimate opposition to zionist ethnic cleansing and Apartheid against the Palestinians with anti-Semitism. That has to be opposed with the same energy as our opposition to anti-African racism and islamophobia.
tallskin
Perdue, you fucking arsehole, I start to read your verbiage but my eyes always glaze over about two sentences in!
Yawn
You really are the most tedious fucking wanker
M Shane
Tallskin:
I don’t think that in a society as abolutist and as worshipful of masculine physical developement (look at many of the posters,of beutiful men, not women), you could avoid a certain distinct kind of social situation which encouraged homosexuality. The conflict arises when the same society encourages breeding more Aryans.
Another factor in that respect, if you have read the psychiatric work of Alice Miller, is that there is historically a significant amount of child sexual abuse in the German race.
The fascist movement , as you can guess, was no paradigm of psychological consistency.
BTW, I recently read an aricle about the modern day admiration of some S&M folks because of the rigid discipline and sadism involved. Pynchon writes about a senario in “Gravitie’s Rainbow.”
Bill Perdue
Gosh tallskin, did I say something to offend.
Was it’s when I called you a racist and islamophobic pig for saying that all the English of African descent were criminals. Or was it about how the English taught Hitler how to commit murder.
Jaroslaw
M Shane – I’m not sure what you’re trying to say, but I would be very careful with statements like “there is a significant amount of child abuse in the German race.” Maybe there is, maybe not. I suspect there is a “significant amount” but compared to what other society/culture? Who does the documenting of the amounts? Is the research methodology consistent between “collectors?”
It is tiring to read about “facts” cited to support various viewpoints when the “facts” aren’t necessarily “facts.”
Splitting hairs? Maybe to some, but a history of homosexuality shows through the centuries in every country it was observed, the culprit was of foreign introduction.
Jaroslaw
final paragraph clarification – what I’m trying to say above is that every country blamed foreigners for introducing homosexuality. It was never a “natural and normal” element of their own native society – in most of Europe and Asia.
Jaroslaw
so we need to be careful throwing around “facts” – as noted above history shows many widely held beliefs that were often 100% wrong.
Bill Perdue
M Shane, there is no such thing as a race, including a German race.
Race, like national and class chauvinism and religion are myths used to bolster the imperial dreams of the rich. These empires building scum like Hitler, the English royals like George the Third, Bush, LBJ and Idi Amin use racism, chauvinism and religion to justify their mass murder.
Racist vermin like tallskin and CHURCHILL-Y provide cover for the Bush/Brit genocide in Iraq, but not because all English and Americans are part of evil ‘races’ – those simply do not exist. In fact the vast majority of Americans and people in England reject them because racists are insane. Racism is a discredited, anti-scientific concept
Fascism in Germany was not bad because Germans are bad. Nor is it unique to Germany. Fascism is simply late stage capitalism coupled with imperialism. It’s corporate greed with a machine gun.
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Oh and M Shane, the only group that has a proven record, both historic and current, of being prone to child abuse are priests of the catholic cult. Otherwise, it exists in every society, and probably is more likely to occur if the culture is highly influence by superstition, aka, religion.
bobito
Hey, Bill – you are right, Haider could not technically be called “pals” with Hussein, and yes, his visit was more of an opportunistic political photo-op nature than anything else.
Haider’s anti-Semitism and pro-Nazi stance was very strong, but I suspect your statement that people of Islamic faith are the “Jews” of the new century to be is accurate. Especially when I recall too many people who should have been intelligent enough to know better telling me 9 years ago that they voted for the FPÖ because all of those women walking around with scarves on their heads made them nervous.
Antonio
Just have to say to Mr. Peter Pan that he seems a very smart guy.
Hope you, Peter Pan, are not killed in a car crash, too, for speaking the truth.Car crashes are frecquently used to silence people… Speaking against the yellow press of today, which is all press, can be dangerous. Good luck, Peter.
Rob Moore
I was cleaning up e-mail and noticed activity on this bit that I hadn’t read. What is most appalling to me is that anyone, anywhere could find anything to redeem this man’s positions whether is is his apparently fond regard for the goals of the Nazis, his views about immigrants, or his apparent lack openness about his sexuality even though it would likely have sent him to a concentration camp during the Nazi era.
My grandfather was one of the soldiers who fought the Nazis, even surviving Dunkirk and North Africa. The atrocities of the Nazis are not supposition or matters of opinion. They are well documented facts. To admire anyone who even expresses sympathy with such a regime is horrifying. I live in the U.S. now, where fascism has only been an election away for the past twenty-eight years. Even here, Nazis are viewed with revulsion. When Nazi sympathisers seek to march, they are almost always met by counter-protesters whose numbers are many times those of the Nazis.
Regardless of how one feels about immigration, it is not right to sympathise with someone whose views would send others to concentration camps for no other reason than they exist.
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