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The Stonewall dinner left me with one question: why are volunteers so horrible to one another?

Ask any charitable group. ‘Internecine’ doesn’t do justice to the undercurrents of resentment

issue 24 January 2015
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I watched the video with some trepidation. Stonewall (the campaigning gay and lesbian equality organisation) had just sent me the YouTube link. This was to a short film of the dinner that Stonewall’s founders attended last year to celebrate the quarter-century anniversary of our existence; and most of us had been there.

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