The Ten Most Influential Norwegian Lesbians in 2010

By joan on Sunday, January 17, 2010 - 15:52

Lesbetoppen 2010 (Top Lesbians 2010) lists the ten most influential Norwegian lesbians.

Each year gaysir.no, a news site and online community for LGBT people in Norway, puts together this list of those out women in their country, who were most prominent in the fight against homophobia (see last year's eurOut report). The majority of the women on this list made an appearance on it in previous years (2007, 2008, 2009), but four of them are quite new. But now on to the present.

1. Anette Trettebergstuen (28)
[2009:1 | 2008:2 | 2007:4]

Anette Trettebergstuen. Photo: Arbeiderpartiet

Anette is clearly the Top Lesbian here; she's in first place the second year in a row. Not only is she the only out lesbian in the Norwegian parliament, of which she's now been a member for over four years, she is also involved in the fight against what is know as the HIV paragraph (section 155 of the Norwegian penal code), which is mostly used to criminalise HIV transmission. She is a member of Arbeiderpartiet (Labour Party), where she has played a part in getting lgbt rights into the party program. In 2009 she received the Skeive Dagar honorary award along with Andre Oktay Dahl.

2. Lisa Dillan (40)
[new]

Lisa Dillan. Photo: Geir Dillan

Lisa is new on this list, but eurOut readers might have already read a portrait about her on this website.

The Jazz singer, composer, performance artist and teacher Lisa Dillan stood out for her committed fight for freedom of speech, as she launched a petition to prevent the "Freedom of Expression Award" to go to Nina Karin Monsen, a moral philosopher, who had been very outspoken against the gender neutral marriage law and expressed her views that homosexuality was hedonistic and inferior to heterosexuality (eurOut reported). Beside the petition Lisa launched, she also took part in protest rallies.

One of her other projects is to stand on her head for lgbt rights around the world.

3. Anne Holt (51)
[2008:8 | 2007:9]

Anne Holt. Photo: Peter Knutson

Today Anne Holt is known as a best selling author of crime fiction, but before her first novel Blind gudinne was published in 1993, she was a lawyer and briefly served as Minister of Justice of Norway. Anne cares about how lgbt people are presented in public and also spoke out strongly against Nina Karin Monsen. Her latest novel Pengemannen (‘Moneyman’) deals with homophobia and hate crimes against homosexuals.