"Stefan Petzner tuli maailmalle tutuksi vuonna 2008, kun hän Jörg Haiderin auto-onnettomuuden ja kuoleman jälkeen itki kameroiden edessä lähiystävän menettämistä. Silloin juoruttiin Haiderin jälkeenjättämistä kahdesta leskestä: omasta aviovaimosta ja Petzneristä. Petzner ei kuitenkaan koskaan ole tunnustanut mahdollista homoseksuaalisuuttaan, vaikka hän on esiintynyt homotapahtumissa miesseurassa ja äänestänyt parlamentissa rekisteröidyn parisuhteen puolesta."
Sitten on se todennäköisin vaihtoehtokin, että etenkin Heider ja tuo Petznerkin olivat/ovat biseksuaaleja, eikä siis lainkaan homoja.
Mutta sitähän termiä/suuntautumista nyt ei tämänkään foorumin uutisissa kyetä kovinkaan usein mainitsemaan.
On 19 October 2008, Petzner announced that he and Haider had been having "a relationship that went far beyond friendship" with the full knowledge of Haider's wife, Claudia.[6] The Associated Press reported Petzner's comments as "Jörg and I were connected by something truly special. He was the man of my life ... I loved him as a best friend." The article was titled: Was Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider gay? Euronews ran the headline "Rumours of Joerg Haider’s secret gay life." Other reports had that “some say” Haider had died “after a furious row with the man who now claims to have been his lover.”
Petzner's statements were criticized within the party as misleading and fit to be interpreted as insinuating a homosexual relationship between Haider and Petzner. His party's officials made a rushed attempt to limit the damage for the image of their far-Right group and banned several other interviews that were to have occurred that week.
... As the party's designated leader, Petzner was also expected to be elected Klubobmann, i.e. chairman of the party's parliamentary group, but on 22 October 2008, Josef Bucher was elected instead, with Petzner becoming one of the five vice chairmen. Petzner himself was reported to have suggested Bucher, who was elected unanimously. Bucher's election was widely interpreted as the result of the rising criticism of Petzner's earlier statements.