This theme that gay white men who prefer Asian men, often referred to by the derogatory term, ‘‘rice queens,’’ could have their ‘‘pick’’ of gay API men was repeated by nearly all the informants. According to another: Rice queens are the ones that like Asians and it’s definitely a small population… so [Asians] are kind of fighting over the same people that are potential boyfriends, you know, competition… There’s this one particular rice queen and, you know, everyone jumps at the chance and be competitive about it, like I’mgoing to be the person he’s going to take home and I’m going to be the best person that, um, he’s going to like me best, so a very kind of competitive thing for attention… It’s like slim pickings, you got only so many to choose from and there’s not enough to go around so you better be on top of the dog pile. (Participant 7)