What article? I got this information directly from Stonewall's website:

https://www.stonewall.org.uk/about-us/news/international-pro...

TFA that all these comments are commenting on. Didn't you read it?

Oh right, that article! Sure, but if I'm making assertions about organizations like Stonewall, I'd rather cite them directly, rather than indirectly from an Economist story.

A) You weren't making a comment about Stonewall, but about some link that you'd found on Stonewall.

B) I, OTOH, was commenting about Stonewall, pointing out that it seemed a crappy source. As such, quoting a known reputable source's judgement of them seems far more prudent than the primary source itself. They're not likely to say "We're a crappy source", are they?

(Heeey, I think I may finally have figured out Wikipedia's obsession with explicitly secondary sources.)

I'm with you now, that makes sense.