Erling Lae (born 16 March 1947) is a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

[2] He was succeeded in June 2016 by second deputy leader of the Progress Party, Per Arne Olsen.

[3] Lae is openly gay,[4] and was named as the most powerful homosexual man in Norway three years in a row by queer website Gaysir, in 2006 through 2008.

[5] He is married to Jens Torstein Olsen, a Lutheran minister,[6] with whom he had lived for 26 years before same-sex marriage was legalized in Norway in 2009.

[7] In June later that year, Lae and his husband travelled to Vilnius, Lithuania to protest after Vilnius Mayor Vilius Navickas [de; lt] condemned gay pride parades in the city centre, along with the government of Lithuania passing a law banning "homosexual advertising".