Postman Patel (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
Stefan Petzner, a 27-year-old former Beuty and fashion journalist became successor to the far right-wing party Alliance of the Future of Austria after Jorg Haider died on October 11th . Just two weeks later, he was removed from his post. This came after he revealed on Austrian radio that he and Haider had been lovers for five years. “We had a special relationship,” Petzner had...
gay persons of color (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
After admitting in interviews that Jörg Haider was his long term partner, Stefan Petzner has been dismissed as leader of the far-right Alliance for the Future of Austria party. Petzner will act as deputy under new leader, Josef Buchner. Not surprising that Petzner has been replaced. Interesting that he remains as deputy leader. Could the far-right be on its way to accepting...
Mirror.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Gay shock as Joerg Haider's lover Stefan Petzner talks By Robert Stansfield Firebrand politician Joerg Haider was yesterday "outed" by the man who succeeded him as leader of a right-wing Austrian political party.Stefan Petzner, 27, said in a radio interview: "We had a relationship that went far beyond friendship. He was the man of my life."The news stunned Austria, which...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 10/23/2008
The successor of the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was dismissed yesterday after he revealed a “special” relationship “far beyond” friendship with his former mentor. In emotional interviews with the national broadcaster and a tabloid newspaper Stefan Petzner spoke openly about his affair with Haider, who after heavy drinking session at a gay club this month. Haider’s party, the...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/12/2008
Vienna - Austria's right-wing populist Alliance for the Future of Austria party on Sunday named Stefan Petzner as it new leader following the death of Joerg Haider on Saturday, the Austrian news agency (APA) reported. Petzner, 27, had been Haider's s...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Vienna - Stefan Petzner, successor to the late Austrian rightist leader Joerg Haider, said Thursday in Klagenfurt he would give up his post to work on upcoming elections, but media said his emotional mourning of Haider had become a liability to his p...
RssDaily (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
A private affair with political implications AUSTRIA is reeling from the revelation by the late Jörg Haider's successor as head of the far-right Alliance for the Future that the two men had a "special relationship" before Mr Haider's recent death in a car crash. The disclosure by Stefan Petzner, a 27-year-old who recently stepped up to head the party, has stunned this socially conservative...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
So, the Austrian far-right leader Jörg Haider was gay. He spent the evening of his fatal car crash in a gay cub, cuddling another man, and used to nip across the border to Slovakia for sex with young men. And Stefan Petzner, his protégé and successor as the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, described Haider as “the man of my life” on an Austrian radio breakfast show
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10/25/2008
Speculation that far-right leader Joerg Haider led a double life raged after his political protege, Stefan Petzner, publicly called Haider "the man of my life" in a tearful tribute to the Freedom Party boss who died in a car crash this month.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Speculation that Joerg Haider led a double life raged this week after his political protege, Stefan Petzner, publicly called Haider "the man of my life" in a tearful tribute.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Last updated October 24, 2008 4:31 a.m. PTWas Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider gay'By WILLIAM J. KOLEIn this Sept. 28, 2008 file photo top candidate of the Alliance for the Future of Austria, BZOE, Joerg Haider, left, with leader of the election campaign Stefan Petzner, in Vienna. Speculation that Haider led a double life widened after his political protege, Stefan Petzner,...
Israellycool (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
It’s official: deceased Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider was a man’s man . Stefan Petzner, the successor to Austrian right-wing populist leader Joerg Haider, has shocked the staunchly conservative country by revealing in a tearful interview that they shared a “special relationship”. Mr Petzner, 27, who was confirmed on Wednesday as the leader of the Alliance for the Future...
China Confidential (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Foreign Confidential.... AP reports from Vienna: Was Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider secretly gay? Speculation that he led a double life raged this week after his political protege, Stefan Petzner, publicly called Haider "the man of my life" in a tearful tribute to the former Freedom Party boss killed in a car crash earlier this month. Petzner, 27, did not say explicitly...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
The tearful revelations by Stefan Petzner that he and his boss, the late rightwing populist Jörg Haider, were lovers, has sent Austria into a spin and plunged a party that only three weeks was celebrating its biggest ever electoral into a state of disarray. Petzner, who remains the spokesman of Haider's anti-immigration Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZÖ) but as of yesterday...
faith in honest doubt (Free subscription) | 10/24/2008
Oh looky! Another far right politician has been found to be gay : The successor to the Austrian rightwing populist Jörg Haider, Stefan Petzner, has shocked the staunchly conservative country by revealing in a tearful interview that they shared a "special relationship". Petzner, 27, who was confirmed yesterday as the leader of the Alliance for the Future of Austria (BZO) after Haider's...
