"rice queen" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: En-au-rice queen.ogg [Australia] Forms: rice queens [plural]
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. Head templates: {{en-noun}} rice queen (plural rice queens)
  1. (gay slang, somewhat derogatory) A non-Asian man who is mostly attracted to East Asian men. Tags: derogatory, slang Categories (topical): People Synonyms: Queen of Chinatown, rice-queen, Rice Queen [rare] Related terms: bean queen, rice king

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          "text": "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,\nIf 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."
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          "text": "2005, Regie Cabico, \"gameboy\", in Emanuel Xavier (Ed.), Bullets & Butterflies: Queer Spoken Word Poetry, Suspect Thoughts Press, →ISBN, page 50,\n[…] / i am not a teriyaki toy / / a rice queen's dream a bowl of soy sauce to dip yr meat in / […]"
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