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queen noun- an obviously homosexual male AUSTRALIA, 1924
- When the cops cracked down, the pouting queens and Lesbians took to Greenwich Village. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York, p. 68, 1948
- The ones that bothered the hotel were the aggressive pansies, the ones the staff usually referred to as “queens.” The hip-swishing, wrist-flapping type is strictly trouble in trousers. — Dev Collans with Stewart Sterling, I Was a House Detective, p. 105, 1954
- They would pretend to be “bait” and allow themselves to be taken home by some queen. — Robert Sylvester, No Cover Charge, p. 268, 1956
- [E]ven Camille, a frail queen from a small town in Jersey, longed for rough arms. — Hubert Selby Jr., Last Exit to Brooklyn, p. 59, 1957
- It was assumed by the Row that because we ganged together so closely the four of us were confirmed, comradely queens. — Clancy Sigal, Going Away, 1961
- — Donald Webster Cory and John P. LeRoy, The Homosexual and His Society: A View from Within, p. 266, 1963: “A lexicon of homosexual slang”
- Old Jewish mothers never know when their sons are faggots. They just miss it somehow. Out-and-out screaming queens–mothers are never hip. — Lenny Bruce, The Essential Lenny Bruce, p. 162, 1967
- One of them is a Negro queen named Irving Amadeus. — Gore Vidal, Myra Breckinridge, p. 87, 1968
- If there’s one thing I’m not ready for, it’s five screaming queens singing Happy Birthday. — Mart Crowley, The Boys in the Band, 1968
- And that’s what the old queen heard in the lav at Maurice’s. — Ted Lewis, Jack Carter’s Law, p. 157, 1974
- All the animals come out at night. Whores, skunk pussies, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. — Taxi Driver, 1976
- As one old queen–who had the apartment next to Spencer’s–told me–“My dear–it was really too much. It was a regular black and tan fantasy.” — Herbert Huncke, The Evening Sun Turned Crimson, p. 43, 1980
- That dapper old queen whose wrist was always limp [...] could have minced for England. — Stuart Jeffries, Mrs Slocombe’s Pussy, p. 102, 2000
- a mother UK
As the ruler of the house. - What’s such a big fuckin pain about livin with yer ahl [old] queen? Food cooked for yis, clothes washed an ironed[.] — Niall Griffiths, Kelly + Victor, p. 285, 2002
- a popular girl US
- — Time Magazine, p. 46, 24 August 1959
- a girlfriend, mistress or prostitute US
- — Carl Fleischhauer, A Glossary of Army Slang, p. 9, 1968
- — Lise Winer, Dictionary of the English/Creole of Trinidad & Tobago, 2003
- an enthusiast of the preceding thing or activity US
- Do I look like some king of gossip queen? — Cruel Intentions, 1999
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