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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