He is the former president of the LGBT organisation called Grupo Dignidade [pt], and the former general secretary of the ABGLT of which he was a founding president in 1995, and a member of the international council of the Hirschfeld Eddy Foundation.

In 1998 Toni Reis described the situation in his country: "1,600 homosexuals have been murdered in the last ten years, of these 350 transvestites and 61 lesbians."

In 2006 he spoke before the Brazilian parliament,[2] where he stated that 250 homosexuals per year are murdered in Brazil.

In 2007 he addressed the United Nations, in order to receive councillor status for his organization [3] In 2003, Toni Reis obtained a permanent Brazilian residence permit for his life partner, who was born in the United Kingdom, in a landmark court case for Brazil.

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