snow queen

plural snow queens

1. A plant of the Pacific coast of the US that blooms in late winter, of species Veronica regina-nivalis (syn. Synthyris reniformis).
2. derogatoryoftenslangLGBTA black gay man who prefers to have relations with white men.

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   You have a lot of people of color here who have problems with their own racial identity. What we in the Black homosexual community term "snow queens." There's lots of them here who will not even speak to you, who will look right through you like you don't even exist, and consider association with whites as some kind of elevation of their status, in life and the community.

   1984 December 15, Charles Fuller, Henry Craig Chinn, “Black Men's Association of Boston”, in Gay Community News, volume 12, number 22, page 10

1. A female fairy tale character with magical power over snow and ice.

   Tom announces that he doesn't believe in such a thing as a Snow Queen.

   2011, Jack Zipes, The Enchanted Screen: The Unknown History of Fairy-Tale Films, Routledge, →ISBN, page 271

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   The fur and the cap, which were made entirely of snow, fell off, and he saw a lady, tall and white, it was the Snow Queen.

   1872 [1845], H. P. Paull, transl., The Snow Queen, translation of Sneedronningen by Hans Christian Andersen (in Danish)

   Daphne wanted to tell her that a Snow Queen can know nothing of love, only of destruction, but she remained silent, just looked away.

   2009, Justine Picardie, Daphne, A&C Black, →ISBN