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curry queen

noun

Etymology

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

Definitions

  1. A (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.

    • 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.
    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA