Torstein Tranøy (8. January 1964 – 7 September 2009) was a Norwegian journalist and writer. He hailed from

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. After starting his journalist career in the local Radio RV, he took journalist education in

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, and started working in ''

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''. He headed the local trade union, and left in protest when editor-in-chief

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was removed in 1997. In 1998 he found work in the business newspaper ''

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'', where he worked at the time of his death. His specialty in journalism was labour, trade unions and wage issues. In 2007 he released the book ''Vallas fall'', about the scandal involving

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and Ingunn Yssen. Openly gay, Tranøy was elected leader of the gay rights organization ''Det Norske Forbundet av 1948'' in 1991. He succeeded Kjell Erik Øie. The organization went defunct in 1992 as Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation was established. Tranøy died suddenly of epilepsy in September 2009.

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