A week after Netflix‘s LGBTQ military series Boots debuted, one review we weren’t expecting to read is from the Pentagon.
Since Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to be too busy with his crackdown on the press and whipping the troops into shape, Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson took time out of her day to decry the new show, which is based on retired Marine Corps. Sgt. Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine (and produced by late WWII veteran Norman Lear).
“Under President Trump and Secretary Hegseth, the U.S. military is getting back to restoring the warrior ethos,” said Wilson in a statement shared with multiple outlets. “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 added, “We will not compromise our standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children.”
A rep for Netflix declined comment.
Created by Andy Parker and based on White’s book, Boots stars Miles Heizer stars as 1990s closeted teen Cameron Cope, who impulsively follows his best friend Ray McAffey’s (Liam Oh) lead in enlisting in the United States Marine Corps.
(L-R) Liam Oh as Ray McAffey and Miles Heizer as Cameron Cope in ‘Boots’
Alfonso “Pompo” Bresciani/Netflix
White’s book was set in 1979, when he joined the USMC with his friend Dale. Gay people could not openly serve in the military until Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell was repealed in 2011.
Hegseth has long been a supporter of the Trump administration’s ban on transgender people in military service, also going after pronouns and ordering the USNS Harvey Milk to remove the name of the gay activist from the naval ship.
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