dinge queen
See also: dinge-queen
English
Alternative forms
- dinge-queen, Dinge Queen (both rare)
Noun
dinge queen (plural dinge queens)
- (gay slang, somewhat derogatory) A white man who is predominantly sexually attracted to black men.
- 1982 August 21, David France, “Anti-Racist Pickets Return to New York Disco”, in Gay Community News, volume 10, number 6, page 1:
- Merry said that what is obvious to them is that "these men are very unhappy and they're looking for attention or they wouldn't keep doing this." The bouncers at the Ice Palace doors dismiss the demonstrators as "dinge queens" to the people who cross the BWMT picket line.
- 2000, Mark Gevisser et al., chapter 6, in Mandela’s stepchildren: homosexual identity in post-apartheid South Africa, in Different Rainbows, Millivres, page 122:
- Although most township gay culture is youth culture, it is entirely wrong to suppose that homosexual activity in the townships is a recent phenomenon, imported by white activists and ‘dinge queens’: indeed black gay men and lesbians protest that such an analysis robs them of the agency for their own desire.
- 2005, Dwight A. McBride, chapter 3, in Why I Hate Abercrombie & Fitch: Essays on Race and Sexuality, New York University Press, page 122:
- Then there are the names ascribed to the men who want to be almost exclusively with black men. They are known as "chocolate queens," "chocoholics," or my absolute least favorite, "dinge queens." These circulate in the marketplace alongside such companion terms as "cha-cha queen" (if you like Latinos), or "rice queen," to describe those who prefer Asians.
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References
- Fantabulosa: A Dictionary of Polari and Gay Slang, by Paul Baker
- Green's Dictionary of Slang, by Jonathon Green