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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Chester Pride volunteers helping their local foodbank.

This Pride is helping to make sure families won’t go hungry this Christmas

A couple marrying in San Francisco in 2008.

All time high: 70% of Americans now support same-sex marriage

Nicolas Maduro in 2019.

Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro backs LGBT+ marriage after Pope’s comments

A protest for equal marriage in Northern Ireland.

Same-sex civil partners in Northern Ireland can now convert to marriage

Kamala Harris at San Francisco Pride in 2019.

The secret gay history of the 2020 presidential race and Trump and Harris’ LGBT+ past

Outside the Joggeli-Lounge in Basel.

Activists say police failed to investigate after three men beat a gay couple in a bar

Malcolm Kenyatta.

Barack Obama says this gay politician’s haircut shows progress is possible

Judge Barrett and her husband Jesse.

Activists attack Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett for supporting LGBT+ hate in schools

Pope Francis with Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone.

Archbishop says Pope Francis told him civil unions would not be at all like marriages

Same-sex penguin couple.

Gay penguin couple who stole an egg still aren’t going to be parents

Pope Francis.

LGBT+ Catholics respond after Pope Francis backs same-sex civil unions

A man looks at his cell phone screen

TikTok says it’s strengthening its stance against LGBT+ and other hate

Pride in Santiago, Chile.

Chile’s Senate approves crucial articles for same-sex marriage law

Indonesian soldiers on a training exercise.

Indonesia cracks down on gay sex in the armed forces

Elisabeth Moreno.

France promises to tackle LGBT+ hate and ban ‘conversion therapy’

Carole Baskin

Tiger King star Carole Baskin comes out as bisexual

Newly elected Labour MPs celebrate outside the New Zealand Parliament.

New Zealand now has the most LGBT+ parliament in the world

A street in Galle, Sri Lanka.

Sri Lanka whipped suspected gay men with wires and gave them anal probe tests

Phillip Schofield on This Morning.

Phillip Schofield says coming out as gay makes him feel like he’s ‘joined a club’

The protest in Palermo.

LGBT+ Italians protest in 63 cities to demand protection from violence

Ann Widdecombe on Strictly Come Dancing.

Ann Widdecombe says ‘families’ will be turned off by seeing same-sex dancing on Strictly

Sam Smith To Die For

Sam Smith explains how it feels to be non-binary

Pride march in Israel.

Israel’s government ministries join forces to make life easier for trans people

Phillip Schofield

Phillip Schofield is still struggling with his mental health after coming out

Joe Biden.

Biden promises mom of trans daughter he will ‘change the law’ to ensure ‘zero discrimination’

Trump in a MAGA cap.

Even Donald Trump’s supporters don’t agree with his anti-LGBT+ stance

House of Assembly, Parliament of South Australia.

Australian state to scrap law that lets killers get away with gay murder

The 2019 Bhubaneswar Pride parade,

Male and female couples fight for same-sex marriage in India in New Delhi High Court

Algeria apartment block.

Court sentences 44 people for attending ‘gay wedding’

Candlelit vigil for 50 years of the Gay Liberation Front.

Veterans hold vigil to mark 50 years of them fighting for LGBT+ rights