Anette Trettebergstuen is a Norwegian politician for the Labour Party

Norwegian Labour Party

The Labour Party is a social-democratic political party in Norway. It is the senior partner in the current Norwegian government as part of the Red-Green Coalition, and its leader, Jens Stoltenberg, is the current Prime Minister of Norway....

. She was elected to the Norwegian Parliament from Hedmark

Hedmark

is a county in Norway, bordering Sør-Trøndelag, Oppland and Akershus. The county administration is in Hamar.Hedmark makes up the northeastern part of Østlandet, the southeastern part of the country. It includes a long part of the borderline with Sweden, Dalarna County and Värmland County. The...

 in 2005. She is the only openly lesbian politician in the Norwegian Parliament.

On the local level she was a member of Hamar

Hamar

is a town and municipality in Hedmark county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Hedmarken. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hamar. The municipality of Hamar was separated from Vang as a town and municipality of its own in 1849...

 municipal council from 1999 to 2005. She was the deputy leader of Europeisk Ungdom, the Norwegian youth wing of the European Movement

European Movement

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, from 2001 to 2002. The Norwegian website Gaysir

Gaysir

Gaysir is a Norwegian website, aimed mainly at gay and bisexual men and women. Gaysir was one of Norway's first web communities, and has approximately 50 000 unique visitors per week.The website is owned and run by the private aksjeselskap Gaysir AS...

named her Norway's second most powerful lesbian woman, in January 2008.