You Mean -- Austria has Gays Too?

A young Austrian politician named Stefan Petzner recently revealed on Austrian radio that he had been involved in a romantic relationship with Joerg Haider, chairman of the far-right Austrian party BZÖ, who recently died in a car accident.
News of the love affair did not come as a major shock to Austria's population. In the past several months, a rival far-right party, the FPÖ, alluded on many occasions to Haider's homosexuality. Harald Vilimsky, the secretary-general of the FPÖ, was one of his biggest detractors and often made such allegations during press conferences. Haider was chairman of the FPÖ before breaking away in 2000; he created his own party in 2005. The rivalry between the two parties has been fierce.
Haider died in a car accident October 11 at the age of 58. He was driving alone on a highway in Carinthia, a province of which he had been governor for many years. On October 17 the Austrian daily Österreich published pictures of him in a gay bar in Carinthia that were taken only a few hours before the accident.
According to the paper, Haider had been accompanied by a younger man with whom he allegedly shared a bottle of vodka