Is this the first appearance in the literary pages of the phrase “big white daddy arse”? (Apart from Tynan’s diaries obvs.)

⁦ @JohannaTC⁩ on Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez, a book which sounds “overstuffed” in more ways than one: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rainbow-milk-by-paul-mendez-an-unfiltered-debut-zv9v2slbc
Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez — an unfiltered debut

Growing up as a black, working-class gay Jehovah’s Witness in the 1990s, Paul Mendez clearly learnt a lot about shame and humiliation. Or “the choke of rejection”, as he calls it in Rainbow Milk. His

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rainbow-milk-by-paul-mendez-an-unfiltered-debut-zv9v2slbc
Also TIL that Mendez is Alan Hollinghurst’s partner, which I Did Not Know.
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