Finance Minister becomes the first member of a Norwegian government to enter a binding homosexual partnership.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/01/15/world/main324379.shtml
From Ministry of Children and Family Affairs. Describes the Partnership Act, which enables two homosexual persons of the same sex to enter into a registered partnership with one another.
http://odin.dep.no/bfd/engelsk/publ/handbooks/004071-120027/index-dok000-b-n-a.html