by Marte Vike Arnesen
Being gay in Belarus can get you arrested, being gay in Palestine can get you killed. Being Gay in Norway for a week is a new world for most of the participants in the Mr. GayEurope contest. For a whole day I followed them backstage. The room was cold and dark, a bunker of steel and concrete, but the mood was electric. The guys never got dressed after their first rehersal, for 12 hours they walked around in their shorts. They were too caught up in the moment of finally being a part of a group, not sticking out, and finally being able to be themselves.
