50 years after homosexual sex between men was decriminalised in Norway, homosexuals receive an official apology from the Norwegian government.
I regret that Norway expressed that it did not accept queer love. People’s love, says Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (Labor).
Thursday is 50 years since homosexuality was decriminalised in Norway. It is today marked by the government with an official apology, Norwegian newspaper VG reports.
Støre and Minister of Culture and Gender Equality Anette Trettebergstuen (Labor Party) have today invited veterans from the gay movement, FRI and several other representatives from the queer communities to a meeting in the government’s official residence.
Støre tells in a speech to the gay community in Norway about how 119 men in Norway between 1902 and 1950 were convicted of having sexual relation with another man before the law was abolished on April 21, 1972.
That the Norwegian authorities prosecuted and convicted these people is deeply serious. The same is the guilt and shame the paragraph inflicted on them. The law led to queer people experiencing gross condemnation and discrimination, says Støre according to VG.
