NEW YORK — It was half of the Stonewall Inn, the gay dive bar where a 1969 police raid became a landmark moment for the LGBTQ+ rights movement. Riot police showed up to clear the demonstrators away, but they kept regrouping and returning until about 4:30 a.m. During an interview inside the Stonewall National Monument Visitor Center, Friday, June 21, …
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Ministers are preparing to block the chairman of Stonewall from leading the competition watchdog, following a long-running row over the regulator’s affiliation with the LGBT charity. Sheldon Mills is a frontrunner to become chief executive of the Competition and Markets Authority, which until recently, insisted on continuing its membership of Stonewall’s “diversity champions” programme despite political pressure to quit the …
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