LGBT asylum seekers will be given special priority in Norway.

Norway's flexible scheme will accept up to 3,000 transfer refugees a year (Photo: Gonzales Photo/Stian S. Moller/PYMCA/Avalon/Universal Images Group/Getty)

For the first time Norway will prioritise LGBT+ asylum seekers as part of a new post-coronavirus refugee scheme.

Announced on July 5 by the Storting, Norway’s federal government, the new policy will give LGBT+ refugees priority both as individuals and as…