rice-queen

A form of rice queen — A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.

Meanings

nounrice-queen (plural rice-queens)

plural rice-queens

  1. alternativederogatoryrareslangLGBTAlternative spelling of rice queen.

    Charles frequented the Sapphire, a rice-queen bar, where he thought it more likely that he would meet someone looking for Asian men. “I wasn’t eighteen years old any more,” he remarks.

    1997, Arthur D. Kahn, chapter 5, in The Many Faces of Gay: Activists Who Are Changing The Nation, Praeger Publishing, page 84
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