curry queen
curry queen noun: a (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.
Noun
curry queen (plural curry queens)
- 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.1998, David L. Eng, Alice Y. Hom, chapter 17, in Queer in Asian America, Temple University Press, page 256
- 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.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
Forms of curry queen
| plural | curry queens |
|---|---|
| alternative form | curry-queen |
| alternative form | Curry Queen |
Origin of curry queen
From curry with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Indian) "South Asian," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".
Questions about curry queen
- What does curry queen mean?
- Curry queen means a (usually white) man who is mostly attracted to South Asian or Indian men.
- What part of speech is curry queen?
- Curry queen is a noun.
- What is the plural of curry queen?
- The plural of curry queen is curry queens.
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