Gábor Szetey

Gábor Szetey (born January 6, 1968) is a Hungarian politician and former Secretary of State for Human Resources in the Gyurcsány government, a role he held since July 2006. [ [http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/hungarian_go-2/?cHash=74384ebf01 Hungarian gov't member publicly announces he is gay] , "Caboodle", 6 July 2007] He is a member of the Hungarian Socialist Party.

Biography

After graduating from the Budapest University of Economic Sciences in 1992, Szetey was adviser, later senior partner at consulting companies in Budapest. In 2000-01, he worked as adviser and trainer at Time Manager International USA Inc., New York. Between 2001-04 he was Human Resources Director at Kraft Foods Hungaria and Philip Morris Magyarország. He continued his career at Massalin Particulares (Philip Morris Argentina) in 2005, but decided to return to Hungary in 2006, when he was invited to work for the Government of Hungary.

Personal life

Szetey publicly declared that he was gay at the opening night of Budapest's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival in Budapest, on July 6, 2007. He is the first LGBT member of government in Hungary, and the second politician to come out, after Klára Ungár.Robin Marshall, [http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=26825 Gay Pride: state sec comes out] , "Budapest Sun", July 11, 2007] Szetey's coming out came at the end of a speech on equality and tolerance:

Amongst the audience was Klára Dobrev, the wife of Prime Minister Ferenc Gyurcsány, as well as four other members of the Hungarian cabinet.The Prime Minister supported Szetey on his blog [hu icon [http://blog.amoba.hu/blog-3.php?oid=Te1a803f7c2e251e0e72faf98f3b1662 About the coming out] , Blog of Ferenc Gyurcsány, July 6, 2007] and called for public debate about same-sex relationships in Hungary (Hungary currently recognises same-sex unregistered cohabitation but not registered partnerships, but after the coming out of Mr. Szetey, the Parliament adopted the Registered Civil Union Act, which will come into forca 1th Januarí 2009.).

In a subsequent interview, Szetey declared:

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External links

*en icon [http://www.365gay.com/Newscon07/07/070607hungary.htm Hungarian Cab Min Comes Out] , "365gay.com", July 6, 2007
*hu icon [http://www.meh.hu/kormany/allamtitkarok/szetey20060704.html Gábor Szetey's page on the website of the Hungarian government]
*hu icon [http://www.szemelyugy.gov.hu/ Website of the State Secretariate for Human Resources]
*hu icon [http://www.magyarorszag.hu/kozigazgatas/portretar/szeteygabor.html Szetey's CV on www.magyarorszag.hu]
*hu icon [http://www.hirado.hu/videotar/?id=4979 Video about the coming out] MTV1 News (Hungarian State Television), July 5, 2007 (Please allow a few seconds for the ads to disappear.)