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white-glove en · ADJ
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Scrupulous, painstaking, meticulous.
Begin with the mass People's Riots at Stonewall. Segue into the hi-energy yet amorphous crisis-wracked Gay Liberation Front. Which clones into the Gay Activists Alliance, structured, single-issued, committee-heavy. When even this proved too unwieldy for an elite who wanted a more upscale machine tailored to their tastes, there appeared the white-glove National Gay Task Force.
1981 August 15, John Mitzel, “Meetings and Mayhem, History and Hype”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 5, page 13:a white-glove inspection
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