Meaning of leather queen | Babel Free

Definitions

A gay man with a fetish for leather.

slang

Examples

“This was a long way from making him a leather queen, I had to admit⟳, but I didn't have⟳ any trouble⟳ picturing him in those bars, leaning sinuously against something, those long strong fingers curled around a beer bottle, those flat cold eyes staring, measuring, challenging.”

“The macho gay, the leather queen, the denim groupie — these are more than just ironic rejoinders to heterosexual masculinity.”

“To find⟳ the real Michel Foucault is to ask⟳ “which one”? Should we look⟳ at the life of the man himself, who as a boy wanted to be a goldfish, but became a philosopher and historian, political activist, leather queen, bestseller, tireless campaigner for dissident causes?”

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