https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Oslo Pride has cancelled this year's street parade, announcing plans to instead celebrate the city's gay, lesbian and transgender people with a virtual festival. https://www.thelocal.no/20200402/oslo-pride-cancels-2020-street-festival-due-to-coronavirus Thu, 02 Apr 2020 13:25:52 +0200 oslo-pride-cancels-2020-street-festival-due-to-coronavirus Norwegian comedian Terje Sporsem was so angry at the terror attack on a gay night at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando that he decided to strike back in the only way he knows -- humour. https://www.thelocal.no/20160802/norway-comic-mocks-is-with-gay-disco-anthem Tue, 02 Aug 2016 14:54:46 +0200 norway-comic-mocks-is-with-gay-disco-anthem Norway's bishops have given the go ahead to gay church marriages in a move campaigners described as "a historic breakthrough". https://www.thelocal.no/20151030/norway-bishops-back-gay-marriage Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:57:01 +0100 norway-bishops-back-gay-marriage Norway’s second richest billionaire, supermarket tycoon Stein Erik Hagen, has come out as gay, outing himself in front of more than two million viewers on Norway’s leading chat show. https://www.thelocal.no/20151004/norways-second-richest-billionaire-comes-out Sun, 04 Oct 2015 10:46:34 +0200 norways-second-richest-billionaire-comes-out An Italian man has pleaded guilty to murdering his ex-boyfriend's new lover with an axe, after ambushing the couple disguised as a woman in a leopard skin coat. https://www.thelocal.no/20150930/italian-admits-murdering-gay-man-in-oslo Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:02:43 +0200 italian-admits-murdering-gay-man-in-oslo A Norwegian footballer over the weekend became the first player ever to be sent off the field for using a homophobic slur, after a referee gave him a red card for calling an opponent “gay”. https://www.thelocal.no/20150610/brum-midfields-gay-jibe-gets-red-card Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:10:29 +0200 brum-midfields-gay-jibe-gets-red-card The British Embassy in Oslo has decked itself in rainbow colours in support of the Europride festival taking place in Oslo this week. https://www.thelocal.no/20140625/british-embassy-flies-the-rainbow-flag Wed, 25 Jun 2014 16:40:02 +0200 british-embassy-flies-the-rainbow-flag Norway's controversial equality minister Solveig Horne was met with loud booing when she opened Oslo's Europride festival on Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20140623/equality-minister-booed-at-oslo-pride Mon, 23 Jun 2014 10:42:00 +0200 equality-minister-booed-at-oslo-pride Norway's Football Association said it had banned political messages backing Ukraine or homosexuals during a friendly match against Russia on Saturday in Oslo. https://www.thelocal.no/20140530/norways-football-association-bans-russia-rainbow-protest Fri, 30 May 2014 16:23:00 +0200 norways-football-association-bans-russia-rainbow-protest Norway is most gay-friendly of the Nordic countries according to a new index that looks at whether legislation respects the rights of Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transexual and intersex people. https://www.thelocal.no/20140515/norway-most-gay-friendly-nordic-country-report Thu, 15 May 2014 23:38:00 +0200 norway-most-gay-friendly-nordic-country-report Norway's Prime Minister has declared her support for gay church weddings, although she argues the decision on whether to allow them is up to the Church of Norway. https://www.thelocal.no/20140416/norway-pm-backs-gay-church-weddings Wed, 16 Apr 2014 13:42:40 +0200 norway-pm-backs-gay-church-weddings A gang of men in Norway set up a fake profile on a gay dating site to lure an unsuspecting man to a deserted car park for al-fresco sex, where they threatened him with a baseball bat and shot him with a BB gun. https://www.thelocal.no/20140313/gang-used-fake-dating-profile-to-lure-gay-man Thu, 13 Mar 2014 14:57:00 +0100 gang-used-fake-dating-profile-to-lure-gay-man Norway will send no official representation to the Sochi Paralympic Winter Games, authorities said on Tuesday, in response to Russia's military intervention in Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.no/20140305/gay-norway-minister-pulls-sochi-trip-in-crimea-protest Wed, 05 Mar 2014 09:13:00 +0100 gay-norway-minister-pulls-sochi-trip-in-crimea-protest Norway has announced it is holding back 50 million kroner ($8m) of aid to Uganda in protest at its new draconian law against homosexuality on the grounds that the law violates "fundamental human rights". https://www.thelocal.no/20140225/norway-cuts-aid-to-uganda-after-gay-law Tue, 25 Feb 2014 10:07:00 +0100 norway-cuts-aid-to-uganda-after-gay-law Norway's most high-profile gay politician plans to bring his husband along to the Winter Olympics in Sochi, despite the deteriorating gay rights situation in Russia. https://www.thelocal.no/20140204/gay-norway-minister-to-bring-husband-to-sochi Tue, 04 Feb 2014 10:49:00 +0100 gay-norway-minister-to-bring-husband-to-sochi The Bishop of Oslo is considering leaving the the body that represents priests in Norway in protest against its decision to call for gay church marriages, he has told Norway's Dagen newspaper. https://www.thelocal.no/20140121/oslo-bishop-may-resign-from-priest-group Tue, 21 Jan 2014 16:33:32 +0100 oslo-bishop-may-resign-from-priest-group Norway's Prime Minister is under pressure from her own party youth group to wear a rainbow-coloured, gay pride lapel pin when she travels to the Winter Olympics in Sochi. https://www.thelocal.no/20140117/party-youth-pushes-norway-pm-to-wear-gay-lapel-pin Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:23:00 +0100 party-youth-pushes-norway-pm-to-wear-gay-lapel-pin Norway's Prime Minister has announced she will not follows the leaders of the US, Germany and France and boycott the Winter Olympics in Sochi in protest at Russia's new anti-gay legislation. https://www.thelocal.no/20131219/norways-pm-rules-out-sochi-boycott Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:09:50 +0100 norways-pm-rules-out-sochi-boycott Two former bishops have resigned from the body that represents priests in Norway in protest at its decision to call for gay church marriages. https://www.thelocal.no/20131213/former-bishops-resign-after-gay-marriage-call Fri, 13 Dec 2013 23:37:44 +0100 former-bishops-resign-after-gay-marriage-call Norway's priests have called on the country's church authorities to draw up a marriage service suitable for gay and lesbian couples. https://www.thelocal.no/20131211/norways-priests-call-for-gay-marriage Wed, 11 Dec 2013 14:36:00 +0100 norways-priests-call-for-gay-marriage