potato queen

plural potato queens · alternative potato-queen · alternative Potato Queen

1. derogatoryslangLGBTA nonwhite (usually East Asian) man who is mostly attracted to Caucasian men.

   They like you because you kneel hard, bend over quick and spread wide... They like you because you're a potato queen...

   2000, Peter Drucker et al., chapter 7, in Different Rainbows, Millivres, page 148

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   During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America. We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen. White men who liked you were called rice queens. Every ethnicity had a term, usually related to food.

   1996, Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu, chapter 8, in East to America: Korean American life stories, The New York Press, page 87

   'He wasn't only an alternative,' Roimata said. 'Don was Maori, he had mana and, from what I've heard, he wasn't called Long Dong Silver for nothing. He was totally suitable but what did you do? You rejected him and became a — a potato queen.'

   2000, Witi Ihimaera, chapter 8, in The Uncle's Story, University of Hawai'i Press, page 131

   “I lived in England for awhile, and I guess that’s where I became a potato queen,” Edward told me in his clipped yet rubbery Chinese/British hybrid accent. He was the first person to turn me on to the term potato queen. I knew about rice queens, but had no idea of this polar opposite—Asian guys who are into Caucasian guys.

   2012, Sebastian V., chapter 15, in The Promiscous Traveler, Bruno Gmünder Verlag, page 128

   At the beginning of “Lesson I,” the “Occupations” dramatization introduces us to the three protagonists who will accompany us on our Cantonese language excursions. The first is a bleached-blond young Asian man who announces in Cantonese, “I am a potato queen, which is someone who likes to do it with white men” (figure 4.2). The second, a dark-haired white French Canadian, states, “I am a rice queen, which is someone who likes to do it with Asian men” (figure 4.3). The third, another young Asian man, tells us, “I mostly do it with white guys, so that makes me a potato queen, but now I like Asians too, so maybe I’m sticky rice” (figure 4.4).

   2014, Nguyen Tan Hoang, chapter 4, in A view from the bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Duke University Press, pages 160-161

plural Potato Queens

1. derogatoryrareslangLGBTAlternative letter-case form of potato queen.

   "I get it now. You associate each race with its basic food group. Let me ask you this, you Rice Queen: did I ever devour your potato ass?" "No" "There you have it. I'm not strictly a Potato Queen."

   2005, Rafaelito V. Sy, chapter 8, in Potato Queen, Palari Publishing, page 71