Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081011/wl_nm/us_austria_haider_death
VIENNA (Reuters) - Austrian far-right leader Joerg Haider, a charismatic populist who helped thrust anti-immigrant politics into the European mainstream, was killed in a car accident on Saturday.
Haider, 58, who led the right into a coalition government from 2000 to 2006, polarized Austria and drew international condemnation with his anti-foreigner outbursts and for appearing to endorse some Nazi policies.
The article is longer, I didn't post it all. Why this is 'relevant' for AE - Jörg Haider was gay.
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on Sat, 2008-10-11 13:25.
Good to Know
It's not good to speak ill of the dead
Jörg Haider is dead.
Good.
Is it still gay if...
Is it still gay if he also has a wife and kids (and publically denies he is gay)? Do we have a name for it? Republican gay?
http://www.bunte.de/schicksal/joerg-haider-momente-seines-bewegten-lebens_did_3098.html?slide=1
The timeline of the various discussion regarding Haider's sexuality compiled by HOSI the Austrian leading gay organization: http://www.hosiwien.at/haiderouting/haiderhome.html
Some pictures that caused a bit of a scandal when they were printed (though they claimed the moral outrage was that he hung out with young guys in a club that promoted binge drinking but we all knew that it was just code for what they couldn't write): http://diepresse.com/home/politik/innenpolitik/347107/index.do?from=rss
I don't know