Torstein Tranøy

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

He hailed from Trondheim. After starting his journalist career in the local Radio RV, he took journalist education in Oslo, and started working in Klassekampen. He headed the local trade union, and left in protest when editor-in-chief Paul Bjerke was removed in 1997. In 1998 he found work in the business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv, where he worked at the time of his death. The organization went defunct in 1992 as Norwegian National Association for Lesbian and Gay Liberation was established.