The Pentagon has had a meltdown at Netflix after it released a show about a closeted gay teenager who enlists in the military.
Boots, a coming-of-age comedy drama adapted from former U.S. Marine Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, follows 18-year-old Cameron Cope (played by Miles Heizer) as he joins the Marines alongside his best friend, Ray McAffey (Liam Oh). The Netflix series is set in the 1990s during a period when gay people were banned from serving in the armed forces, just before the introduction of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
When approached by Entertainment Weekly for comment about the military-based show with pro-LGBTQ themes, a spokesperson for Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth labeled the Netflix as “woke garbage.”
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