potato queen

potato queen noun: a nonwhite (usually East Asian) man who is mostly attracted to Caucasian men.

Noun (1)

potato queen (plural potato queens)

(derogatory, slang) A nonwhite (usually East Asian) man who is mostly attracted to Caucasian men.
- During my "sticky rice" phase, I explored what it meant to be queer and Asian in contemporary America. We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen. White men who liked you were called rice queens. Every ethnicity...1996, Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu, chapter 8, in East to America: Korean American life stories, The New York Press, page 87
- 'He wasn't only an alternative,' Roimata said. 'Don was Maori, he had mana and, from what I've heard, he wasn't called Long Dong Silver for nothing. He was totally suitable but what did you do? You rejected him and became a — a potato queen.'2000, Witi Ihimaera, chapter 8, in The Uncle's Story, University of Hawai'i Press, page 131

Potato Queen (plural Potato Queens)

(derogatory, rare, slang) Alternative letter-case form of potato queen.
- "I get it now. You associate each race with its basic food group. Let me ask you this, you Rice Queen: did I ever devour your potato ass?"
  "No"
  "There you have it. I'm not strictly a Potato Queen."2005, Rafaelito V. Sy, chapter 8, in Potato Queen, Palari Publishing, page 71

We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen.1996, Elaine H. Kim, Eui-Young Yu, chapter 8, in East to America: Korean American life stories, The New York Press, page 87:
“I lived in England for awhile, and I guess that’s where I became a potato queen,” Edward told me in his clipped yet rubbery Chinese/British hybrid accent.2012, Sebastian V., chapter 15, in The Promiscous Traveler, Bruno Gmünder Verlag, page 128:
The first is a bleached-blond young Asian man who announces in Cantonese, “I am a potato queen, which is someone who likes to do it with white men” (figure 4.2).2014, Nguyen Tan Hoang, chapter 4, in A view from the bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Duke University Press...

From potato with the (somewhat derogatory) sense of (namely Irish) "Anglo-Saxon man," combined with queen to imply "homosexual attraction to...".

What does potato queen mean?: Potato queen means a nonwhite (usually East Asian) man who is mostly attracted to Caucasian men.
How do you use potato queen in a sentence?: We had terms for everyone: if you were rice (gay and Asian) and you liked white men, then you were a snow queen or a potato queen.
What part of speech is potato queen?: Potato queen is a noun.
What is the plural of potato queen?: The plural of potato queen is potato queens.

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Last updated: 2026-09-02

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