leather queenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

leather queen (複数形 leather queens)

1. (slang, LGBT) A gay man with a fetish for leather.
   • 1991, Lawrence Block, A Ticket To The Boneyard, →ISBN, page 142:

     This was a long way from making him a leather queen, I had to admit, but I didn't have any trouble picturing him in those bars, leaning sinuously against something, those long strong fingers curled around a beer bottle, those flat cold eyes staring, measuring, challenging.

   • 1993, Anthony Giddens, The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies, →ISBN, page 147:

     The macho gay, the leather queen, the denim groupie — these are more than just ironic rejoinders to heterosexual masculinity.

   • 1997, Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault (Totem Books, Icon Books; →ISBN, page 3:

     To find the real Michel Foucault is to ask “which one”?
     Should we look at the life of the man himself, who as a boy wanted to be a goldfish, but became a philosopher and historian, political activist, leather queen, bestseller, tireless campaigner for dissident causes?