Szetey publicly declared that he was gay at the opening night of Budapest's Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 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, 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:
