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Stig Elling (born 15 March 1947 in Kongens Lyngby) is a Danish businessman, sales director at TUI Nordic and politician.
Career
In 1980, he founded Sol-Rejser, which subsequently merged with Fritidsrejser, Falke Rejser and Team Sterling and became TUI Nordic, a branch of TUI Group. He became its sales director in 1986. In 2005, he was elected to the Frederiksberg Municipal Council as a member of the Conservative People's Party.
He came out as gay in his 2007 autobiography Hele Sandheden (The Whole Truth). Having previously lived in a registered partnership with his partner Steen Andersen, they married in Copenhagen on 15 June 2012, marking the first same-sex marriage in Denmark. Elling grew up Catholic but later joined the Church of Denmark as a protest against the child abuse cases in the Catholic Church.
References
- "Stig Elling dropper folketingskandidatur". Børsen (in Danish). 22 August 2007. Archived from the original on 15 November 2016.
- "Det gav vild ballade, da det første homoseksuelle par blev gift i en kirke for 10 år siden". Politiken (in Danish). 15 June 2012.
- "Stig Elling forlader den katolske kirke". Fyens Stiftstidende (in Danish). 22 March 2010. Archived from the original on 16 March 2011.