Tris Reid-Smith

Co-founder and editor-in-chief of Gay Star News, Tris has years of experience across global LGBTI media publications.

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UK Equalities Minister Liz Truss.

Cross-party politicians demand UK bans ‘conversion therapy’ without delay

Hungary's Constitutional Court justices.

Trans activists take Hungary’s new law banning gender recognition to Constitutional Court

Homosexuelle Aktion Westberlin

How the Soviet Union accidentally rolled out the red carpet for a delegation of gay activists

Adam Levine's apparently well-maintained crotch.

What gay men and women really think about pubic hair and sex

Man with a machete.

Pair hired for man’s sexual broom fantasy went to the wrong house with machetes

UK blood donation trucks.

UK may lift its gay and bi blood donation ban this year

Balans on Old Compton Street, London.

Favorite LGBT+ restaurant chain Balans to sell all its London units

A dad teaches his trans son how to shave in a Gillette advert from 2019.

Seeing LGBT+ people in media really does change hearts and minds

Larry Kramer

‘A giant’: Tributes pour in for AIDS activist and playwright Larry Kramer

Michael Cimino in the title role of Love, Victor.

The latest Love, Victor trailer promises confusion, kissing and great hair

China's National People's Congress.

Campaigners push for same-sex marriage in China as party official rejects change

The Trevor Project at LA Pride.

Over a quarter of trans and non-binary youth have attempted suicide in the last year

Greg and Manuel framed photo in Out.

Disney+ features Pixar’s first gay lead character in ‘Out’

A woman accepts some rainbow masks from Jakub and Dawid.

A Polish gay couple took their rainbow face masks to an ‘LGBT-Free Zone’

Daritza Araya and Alexandra Qu Castillo getting married.

This is the moment the first lesbian couple married in Costa Rica

Man in front of a waterfall in Dominical, Savegre, Costa Rica.

Discover stunning Costa Rica: Where marriage equality starts today!

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov.

Chechnya’s chief homophobe Ramzan Kadyrov in hospital with COVID-19 symptoms

Ellen DeGeneres cutting her mom Betty's hair.

Ellen gets out the clippers to cut her mom’s hair for her 90th birthday

Piccadilly Circus tube station in London at night.

Three men launch vicious homophobic attack in London’s Piccadilly Circus

A fantasy room in a Japanese love hotel.

‘Love hotels’, where Japanese people go for sex, turn away gay couples

SOS Homophobie in Lyon.

Anti-LGBT+ hate crime soars by over a third in France

Pride parade in Costa Rica

Costa Rica rejects delays: Same-sex marriage will definitely start on Tuesday

Scene from Special.

The creator and star of Netflix’s Special promises ‘a lot more gay sex’ in season 2

Scene from God's Own Country.

Amazon Prime censors gay sex scenes in God’s Own Country

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.

Hungary passes cruel law to ban legal gender recognition

Male torso.

Injectable PrEP may be on its way and is even more effective than pills

Shanghai Pride-goers in rainbow colors.

Over 20% of Chinese university students say they are not straight

Gay couple.

Gay and bi men are very horny but abstaining from hook-ups during lockdown

Seoul Queer Pride Parade in South Korea, 2019.

LGBT+ groups ask UN to fight homophobes using coronavirus to spread hate and violence

Lawyers and campaigners outside the court in Uganda.

Uganda drops charges for LGBT+ youths after 49 days in jail