Green tried hard to persuade the parents of his ‘sissy boys’ to be accepting. ‘We would say: you don’t need to be a jock to be a boy,’ he told me when I interviewed him in London in 2017, two years before his death. ‘You don’t need to be a girl to draw pictures. There are other boys like your son. Find [non-feminine, non-macho] activities he likes, such as board games. We would say to the father: “So he’s not an athlete. He still deserves a father.” ’
