Tag: Gay Star News

Gay Star News has shuttered after eight years.The online publication, which launched in 2011, said that financial issues had forced it to close despite its increasing popularity.The publication's staff of 20 people were given 48 hours notice of the closure.Gay Star News founders Tris Reid-Smith and Scott Nunn said in a statement that Brexit played a key role in the publication's demise."We entered 2019 with every reason to be confident we were going to have a strong year. But as...

Well, this was rather sudden and unexpected. Gay Star News, one of the leading LGBTQ media sites based out of the U.K., just announced it’s shutting down. The site will no longer be updated but will remain online in archive form for “as long as possible.” “We are devastated to have to confirm the reports that Gay Star News has to close, effective immediately,” the site’s co-founder, Tris Reid-Smith, writes in a letter to readers. The site, which has been in operation...

The founders of the long-running LGBTQ world news site Gay Star News just confirmed that the publication is immediately closing, though they added that they “will try to preserve for as long as possible.” In a public letter posted by Gay Star News founders Tris Reid-Smith and Scott Nunn said the publication is “widely read, watched and loved by the international LGBTI audience” but that “our problem has been entirely financial.” They largely blamed businesses that “rainbow wash” during Pride...