Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party who was elected to the Oslo city council in 1991, and was a city commissioner between 1997 and 2000. From 2000 to 2009 he was the governing mayor of Oslo. He was a deputy leader of the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2010. In 2010 he was announced as the new county governor of Vestfold, succeeding Mona Røkke. Lae is openly gay and is married to Jens Torstein Olsen, a Lutheran minister, with whom he had lived with for 26 years before same-sex marriage was legalized in Norway in 2009. Link to Wikipedia biography Read less