Anders Gåsland
{{Short description|Norwegian politician (born 1968)}}
{{infobox officeholder|birth_date=16 January 1968|birth_place=Rælingen, Norway|known_for=promoter of gay rights in Norway|party={{hlist|Christian Democratic Party| Liberal Party}}|office=chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party|term_start=1992|term_end=1993|occupation=psychiatrist}}
Anders Gaasland, formerly[https://www.aftenbladet.no/magasin/i/3j0Ga0/krf-har-tapt-mange-slag-kan-de-overleve-dette KrF har tapt mange slag. Kan de overleve dette?]. "Tidligere KrFU-leder Anders Gaasland (tidl. Gåsland) husker derimot " Anders Gåsland (born 16 January 1968) is a Norwegian politician, formerly for the Christian Democratic Party. Openly homosexual, he is considered an important promoter of gay rights in Norway.{{cite news |author=NTB |author-link=Norwegian News Agency |title=Huitfeldt feiret med homokrigerne |url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=512325 |date=14 March 2008 |access-date=2008-08-12 |language=no }}
Life
He was born in Rælingen.Gåsland, Anders (1968-) (1993). Alltid freidig. Oslo: Gyldendal. {{ISBN|8205219451}}. In 1992, he took over as chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, the youth wing of the Christian Democratic Party. In the autumn of 1992, he came out as a homosexual, in the prime time news programme Lørdagsrevyen.{{cite news |first=Roger |last=Grosvold |title=Sterke historier i nytt format |url=http://www.gaysir.no/artikkel.cfm?CID=13017 |work=Gaysir |date=22 June 2008 |access-date=2008-08-12 |language=no |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110718162553/http://www.gaysir.no/artikkel.cfm?CID=13017 |archive-date=18 July 2011 |url-status=dead }} Shortly after, he was removed from the party ticket for the 1993 Norwegian parliamentary election.{{cite news |first=Tore |last=Gjerstad |title=Det er sikkert like mange homofile i KrF som i andre partier |url=http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2004/03/07/392730.html |work=Dagbladet |date=7 March 2004 |access-date=2008-08-12 |language=no }} Originally willing to continue as chairman of the Youth of the Christian People's Party, he was pressured to resign from this position.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gt3vtp3dcvMC&dq=Anders+G%C3%A5sland&pg=PA101|title=Psychology of Gender Identity|last=Lee|first=Janice W.|date=2005|publisher=Nova Publishers|isbn=9781594542145|language=en}} He was succeeded by Andreas E. Eidsaa.
Gåsland later joined the Liberal Party.{{cite news |title=Byttet ut kona med mann |url=http://www.vg.no/nyheter/innenriks/artikkel.php?artid=6326148 |work=VG |date=26 February 2002 |access-date=2008-08-12 |language=no }} He was included on the party ticket in Oslo ahead of the 2001 parliamentary election,[http://www.ssb.no/stortingsvalg/arkiv/tab-2001-11-02-17.html Party tickets for the Norwegian parliamentary elections, 2001] - Statistics Norway but was not elected. He works as a psychiatrist.{{cite news |title=Psykiatrisk legevakt i Midtøsten |url=http://www.ulleval.no/modules/module_123/proxy.asp?iCategoryId=764&iInfoId=15147&iDisplayType=2 |publisher=Ullevål University Hospital |date=30 August 2006 |access-date=2008-08-12 |language=no }}{{Dead link|date=June 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
In 1993, he published the autobiographical book Alltid freidig which details his experience as a gay person in the Christian Democratic Party.
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Category:Christian Democratic Party (Norway) politicians
Category:Norwegian psychiatrists
Category:Norwegian gay politicians
Category:Norwegian autobiographers
Category:21st-century Norwegian LGBTQ people
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