rice queen

English

Alternative forms

• (rare) rice-queen
• (rare) Rice Queen

Noun

rice queen (plural rice queens)

1. (idiomatic, slang, LGBT) A gay non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men.
   • 1984, Herbert Gold, Mister White Eyes: A Novel, Arbor House, ISBN 0877956367, 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 1560247525, 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 0974638854, 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 usage examples of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• Queen of Chinatown

See also

• bean queen

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