Meanings
plural fishy queens
- LGBTQ slangA drag queen who adopts a particularly feminine appearance.
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The drag world of course includes traditional queens with heavy lip lines and huge lashes, their makeup almost mask-like in its precision. But it also encompasses everything from "fishy" queens, whose gorgeous bodies and ultra-feminine images confuse the observer, to bearded ladies, who play with gender stereotypes and have come to represent the new, confrontational face of drag, […]
2016, Magnus Hastings, “Introduction”, in Why Drag?, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle Books, →ISBN
Origin
From fishy (“appearing very feminine and resembling a cisgender woman”).
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