Terje Årsvoll Olsen (born 1959)

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Olsen was born and raised in Hetland. Trained as a nurse, and currently serves as a university college lecturer.

Olsen shares in the interview his experiences growing up just outside Stavanger. He lived there until he began his nursing studies at Stord Nursing School at the age of 19, and it was also there that he came out at the age of 21.

He met his current partner in 1981, and the two have lived together since 1983. They entered into a registered partnership in 1993. Olsen lived with his partner in Tromsø from 1988 to 1991. He has worked as a nurse for many years and is currently a university college lecturer at the Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, in the nursing program.

In an excerpt from the interview, Årsvoll Olsen recounts a particular experience he had while working in home nursing in the early 1980s.

The full interview is available in our reading room. Skeivt Arkiv met with Terje Årsvoll Olsen in Bergen, November 2018.