Boots: Pentagon as Film Critic–Depicting Gay Militar Drama as “Woke Garbage”

Netflix’s Gay Military Drama ‘Boots’ as ‘Woke Garbage’: ‘The U.S. Military Is Getting Back to Restoring the Warrior Ethos’

BOOTS. Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope in Episode 103 of BOOTS. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2025
Courtesy of Netflix © 2025

Officials at President Trump’s Pentagon criticize Netflix’s Boots a real-life military drama about closeted gay teen recruit.

Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson called the new series “woke garbage” in a statement obtained by Entertainment Weekly.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos. Our standards across the board are elite, uniform, and sex neutral because the weight of a rucksack or a human being doesn’t care if you’re a man, a woman, gay, or straight,” Wilson’s statement said.

“We will not compromise our standards to satisfy ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children.”

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It stars Miles Heizer (“13 Reasons Why”) as Cameron Cope, who impulsively follows his best friend Ray McAffey (Liam Oh) in enlisting in the military in the 1990s.
The series takes place 4 years before President Clinton’s controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy went into effect. Notably.
The show is notabe for starring out gay actors, including Angus O’Brien as a frat-boyish enlistee and Max Parker as closeted drill sergeant.

“When the show started filming in 2023, I don’t think we intended to have this message that’s so relevant to serving today,” Heizer said. “But then of course, as we’re making it, all these things started happening. It’s vinteresting that ‘Boots’ shines a light on what’s actually happening now, even though the show is set in 1990. It’s upsetting.”

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