Meanings
rice queen1
plural rice queens · alternative rice-queen · alternative Rice Queen
- derogatoryslangLGBTA non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
2005, Regie Cabico, "gameboy", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, →ISBN, page 50, […] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]
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1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, →ISBN, page 204, These were nostalgic gray wolves in this place, or maybe they were the ones who spent the money and brought in the chickens. A rice queen with a Japanese boy (maybe Chinese).
1995, unnamed interview subject, quoted in Laurence Wai-Teng Leong and Gerard Sullivan, Gays and Lesbians in Asia and the Pacific: Social and Human Services, Haworth Press, →ISBN, page 101, If a man like myself in his 40s goes into a gay bar in Australia, no heads are going to turn. There are a few young Asian men and a lot of rice queens. In Thailand the position is reversed and the Caucasian man can choose.
Synonyms: Queen of Chinatown
Rice Queen2
plural Rice Queens
- alternativerareAlternative spelling of rice queen.
Him: Are you new to the world of Rice Queens?
2012 January 12, piefolk, Rice Queen2 more examples
Rice Queen - a non-Asian man, usually white, who likes Asian men exclusively.
2003 November 29, QuietMountain, (Please provide the book title or journal name)This establishment is a haven for Asians and their admirers (known as ‘Rice Queens’).
2022 June 28, admin, Rice Queens
Synonyms & antonyms
nounA non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
Origin
From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; one was probably formed by analogy with the other.
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