Hungary’s Right Wing Ruling Party Tries To Shrug Off Closeted Anti-LGBT Pol’s Capture At Belgian “Gay Orgy”

The Guardian reports:

Hungary’s rightwing ruling party has tried to brush off accusations of hypocrisy over a “gay orgy” scandal in Brussels, involving one of its inner circle, the MEP József Szájer. The prime minister, Viktor Orbán, and his ruling Fidesz party have enacted a range of legislation over the past decade infringing on LGBT rights, and Szájer himself boasted of personally rewriting Hungary’s constitution to define marriage as a heterosexual institution in 2011.

That made it all the more embarrassing when he was caught by Brussels police shimmying down a drainpipe to escape a gay orgy last Friday. Police raided the gathering as it violated Belgium’s coronavirus regulations. In a terse statement, the Fidesz grouping in the European parliament commended Szájer’s resignation. “He made the only right decision. We acknowledge his decision, just as we acknowledge that he has apologised to his family, his political community and to the voters,” it read.

Read the full article. Szájer, who is married to a woman, claims that the drugs found on him by police were planted. According to European media, that he is gay was an “open secret” among his party members.

The host of the “gay orgy” tells the Belgian press that Szájer came as another guest’s plus-one and that everyone was naked at the time of the raid. Szájer faces charges for drug possession and, along with other attendees, for violating lockdown rules.

A host on Hungary’s state-run TV station last night suggested that the party was a set-up by enemies of the ruling party.