rice queen

See also: rice-queen

English

Alternative forms

• rice-queen, Rice Queen (both rare)

Etymology

From rice with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of "Asian man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...". Compare bean queen for derivation; though, one probably formed by analogy with the other.

Pronunciation

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Noun

rice queen (plural rice queens)

1. (gay slang, somewhat derogatory) A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
   • 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.

   • 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 / […]

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:rice queen.

Synonyms

• Queen of Chinatown

See also

• bean queen
• rice king

References

• "Asian Pacific Islander Community Media Resource Kit" from GLAAD
• "You're a Rice Queen IF" test
• mindprod.com
• The Rice Queen Diaries: A Memoir