Kim Friele

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

This post has really nothing to do with Nick and Greg, but I wanted to say something about it still. I know all of us in here do want to support gay rights, so I wanted you all to know about a wonderful woman!

Norway are wrapping up the celebration of 100 years of independence, after the end of the union with Sweden in 1905. The TV channel NRK has during this year presented many Norwegians that has been nominated the 'Century's Norwegian'. The viewers has voted, and today a list of 5 finalist was presented. Tomorrow we will have a winner.....

Among the 5 finalists there is only one that is still alive: Kim Friele.
Kim Friele is born in Bergen in 1935.

She was the first Norwegian that officially came out with her right name as gay, and she became the Norwegians "gay face nr. 1"
She worked for the closed gay organisation "Det Norske Forbundet av 1948" and was this organisations leader from 1966 - 1971, and worked in the leadership of the organisation until 1989.

Her work resulted in the change of the law. In 1972 it was no longer illegal to be gay in Norway.
In 1978 homosexuality was also erased from the list of mental disorders thanks to the work of this woman.
When Norway in 1981 extended the law against racism to also include homosexuality, Kim Friele was a huge resource behind this development.
1993, Norway give the gays the right to get married/partnership (as the second country after Denmark), and Kim Friele was one of the first to get married to her girlfriend for many years.

The 4 other finalist are also huge personalities that has meant a lot for our country, but I must say, I am proud that the people has decided to vote for a woman that has spent 44 year of her life to work for gay acceptance!
I hope her work can be an inspiration!

Go Kim! I hope you will win!

Comments

[el-gilliath.livejournal.com]

It used to be illegal to be gay in Norway?!? Well that's the biggest piece of horse shit I have ever heard. And Mental Disorder?!? Thank good I was born when I was so I didn't have to listed to this pile of crap. Idiotic people... Kim really deserves the place she has on that list, I hope she wins!
(And thank good Gro Harlem Brundtland got taken off.)

She was on Først og Sist, right?

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

Yepp - it was on først og sist they announced the finalis list....
And Kim did a good precentation there! I so admire that woman!

Gro isn't all that bad, is she? She was a great leader, but don't ask me about her politics, because I honestly don't know...

The rest of the finalis list: Thor Heyerdahl, Erik Bye (YAY! HE was a wonderful person), Olav V and Einar Gerhardsen... all good men!

[el-gilliath.livejournal.com]

Ah, right. I didn't watch it, but I knew she was going to be there.

I don't like her. No particular reason, just because.

Hon, we all like Erik Bye;)

[ohmygah-x.livejournal.com]

Your pissin' icon is extremely gorgeous. Wow...

I hope Kim wins, bless her.

[el-gilliath.livejournal.com]

Thanks:D brandinsbabe made it for me! Very droolable

[anmani.livejournal.com]

Christianity has haunted gays for centuries and marked them as mentally ill. Since many westernly laws are based on the Christian idea it became illegal to be gay in many countries.

Even though we were the first country to allow registration of gay partnerships there are still many hurdles to be solved. Such as adoption and insemination.

I hope that she wins too.
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[bflyw.livejournal.com]

Adoption is still not legal in Norway. It is a hot topic though.
How is the laws about insemination in Denmark? They can't do it in Norway - but as far as I know people go to Denmark to do it???

[anmani.livejournal.com]

Lesbians can't be inseminated with anonymous sperm. The debate has been running hot, but laid low lately so I honestly don't know.

[bflyw.livejournal.com]

I read this in Dagsavisen:

"Til Danmark
Stadig flere norske kvinner reiser til Jordmorklinikken Stork i Danmark. Dette er den eneste klinikken i Skandinavia hvor kvinner kan få kunstig inseminasjon.

15 prosent av kvinnen som kommer hit, er norske, viser tall fra klinikken.

Hanne Bøydler (28) og Anne Margrethe Heggelund (22) planlegger å bli mødre neste sommer. I september reiser de derfor til Stork i København. Her skal Anne Margrethe Heggelund insemineres med sæd fra anonym donor.

Allerede nå søker paret etter bestemor og bestefar.

– Vi vil så gjerne ha noen snille besteforeldre som kan skjemme bort barnet vårt og gi det opplevelser som vi ikke kan gi dem, sier Anne Margrethe Heggelund og Hanne Bøydler. "

[anmani.livejournal.com]

Right after some research I have got my facts straight (no pun intended).
In Denmark lesbians cannot get public support to pay for an insemination like male/female couples can. And that is what the debate is about among other things. Nina Stork runs a clinic and for those who can afford it she inseminates.

I think that people should loosen up and not always claim that it is for the protection of the children that they don't want them to grow up in gay families. Children these days are lucky if they grow up in a family consisting of mum and dad throughout. With the high rate of divorces that argument does not hold.
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