queen

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queen

1. slang A derogatory and highly offensive term for a homosexual male, usually one considered effeminate or flamboyant.
2. slang A reclaimed term used by homosexuals for such a homosexual male (see Definition 1). Me and a couple other queens are heading to the gay pride parade in town. Do you want to come with us?
3. A shortening of "drag queen," a man who wears the clothing and assumes the demeanor of a woman, typically as part of an exaggerated performance piece. Oh, I'll get up there and do another number, for sure—a queen like me loves the stage!
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

queen

n. a homosexual male. Tom is getting to be such a queen.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
See:
  • bean queen
  • beauty queen
  • bio queen
  • drag queen
  • drama queen
  • faux queen
  • God save the King/Queen
  • hangar queen
  • ice queen
  • in the days of Queen Dick
  • in the reign of Queen Dick
  • queen
  • Queen Anne is dead
  • Queen Anne's dead
  • queen bee
  • Queen Bey
  • queen it
  • queen it over (one)
  • queen it over somebody
  • Queen Street farmer
  • queen up
  • Queen's English
  • Queen's weather
  • size queen
  • take the King's/Queen's shilling
  • the King's/Queen's English
  • the Queen's English
  • the uncrowned king/queen
  • the uncrowned king/queen of (something)
  • turn king's/queen's evidence
  • yasss queen
References in classic literature
Behind these came stout King Henry upon a dapple-gray stallion, with his Queen beside him upon a milk-white palfrey.
Then all the people arose and shouted, so that their voices sounded like the storm upon the Cornish coast, when the dark waves run upon the shore and leap and break, surging amid the rocks; so, amid the roaring and the surging of the people, and the waving of scarfs and kerchiefs, the King and Queen came to their place, and, getting down from their horses, mounted the broad stairs that led to the raised platform, and there took their seats on two thrones bedecked with purple silks and cloths of silver and of gold.
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
`Come on, then!' roared the Queen, and Alice joined the procession, wondering very much what would happen next.
`Get to your places!' shouted the Queen in a voice of thunder, and people began running about in all directions, tumbling up against each other; however, they got settled down in a minute or two, and the game began.
Alices Adventures In Wonderland
"How now!" said the Queen smiling; "is this my lady Marian, or the page, Richard Partington?"
Now the Queen had half-expected the men to be rude and uncouth in appearance, because of their wild life in the forest; but she was delightfully disappointed.
Robin Hood
Do you know Monsieur d'Artagnan?" he added, looking steadfastly at the queen.
"Still!" said the queen. "I thought that we were finally quit of Monsieur de Beaufort."
Twenty Years After
"But they have corresponded; it is to him that the queen has been writing all the day.
Are you also in accord with Spain and England, with Madame de Chevreuse and the queen?"
Three Musketeers
Alice wondered a little at this, but she was too much in awe of the Queen to disbelieve it.
'It's time for you to answer now,' the Queen said, looking at her watch: 'open your mouth a LITTLE wider when you speak, and always say "your Majesty."'
Through the Looking Glass
When the queen got home, she went straight to her glass, and spoke to it as before; but to her great grief it still said:
When she reached the dwarfs' cottage, she knocked at the door, and cried, 'Fine wares to sell!' But Snowdrop said, 'I dare not let anyone in.' Then the queen said, 'Only look at my beautiful combs!' and gave her the poisoned one.
Fairy Tales
At these words the sleeper awoke, and lost no time in rising and hurrying to the garden, where she found all as the Good Queen had described.
Yellow Fairy Book