英和和英

語源

From curry with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Indian) "South Asian," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".

名詞

curry queen (plural curry queens)

1. (gay slang, somewhat derogatory) A (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.
   • 1998, David L. Eng, Alice Y. Hom, chapter 17, in Queer in Asian America, Temple University Press, page 256:

     But in America, as I tentatively explored my gayness, I started meeting the real queens — drag queens, potato queens, rice queens, and salsa queens. What I needed to find, my friends assured me, was a bona fide curry queen.

   • 2006, Monisha Das Gupta, chapter 5, in Unruly Immigrants: Right, Activism, and Transnational South Asian Politics in the United States, Duke University Press, page 178:

     On analyzing the first dynamic, SALGA members agreed to exclude curry queens so that they could constitute a space in which they were subjects and not mere objects of an exoticizing white gaze.

   • 2010, Barry J. Blake, chapter 8, in Secret Language: Codes, Tricks, Spies, Thieves, and Symbols, Oxford University Press, page 213:

     Gay argot has a number of terms for which there is no simple equivalent in the standard language. These include the terms bean queen (a male homosexual in the USA who likes partners from south of the border), chicken queen (likes young partners), curry queen (likes South Asian partners), and rice queen (likes East Asian partners).

関連する語

• bean queen
• dinge queen
• potato queen
• rice queen
• salsa queen
• seafood queen
• snow queen
• sticky rice

参照

• Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, by Paul Baker
• Chambers Slang Dictionary by Jonathon Green
• Lambda Online "Rules of Attraction"