muscle queen

noun

Definitions

  1. An especially muscular gay man who works out, usually for sex appeal.

    • He’d been labeled “gay” in my mind from the beginning. It wasn’t like he was a swishy queen. He was a muscle queen. Don’t muscle queens pass for straight? Our waitress at the Bluebird had flirted with him. She hadn’t seen him as gay.
    • American flags are hung alongside rainbow flags, middleclass families stand alongside shirtless muscle queens. It is a harmonious, almost surreal confluence of the gay and straight worlds.
    • These days, just dieting wasn’t enough. You could be out at the gym feeling great about yourself when some muscle queen with a three-percent body fat ratio catches your eye and paranoia strikes a home run.
  2. A man who is attracted to bodybuilders or muscular men.

    • “Oh, like queen in real gay slang,” said Leif. “A muscle queen is into guys with muscles; a size queen is into—you know.”

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