"The series, which began streaming on Thursday, follows Miles Heizer (the 31-year-old star of 13 Reasons Why and ) as Cameron Cope, a gay teenager who seems lost upon graduating high school. This is thanks in no small part to his flighty mother Barbara (Vera Farmiga), who has moved the family 12 times in the past decade, but it's also because all he really seems to know about himself is that he's a Cancer sun with Aries rising who loves Wilson Phillips."
""Becoming a man? What does that actually mean?" That's the question posed at the start of Boots, Netflix's new queer coming-of-age series set in a Marine Corps training program, but also one essentially posed by our new so-called Secretary of War Pete Hegseth just last week. Yet while Hegseth, onstage before the nation's top military brass, tried to answer the question with chest-beating machismo, insisting on "the highest male standard" and decrying "beardos" and "males who think they're females," only Boots arrives at a coherent answer."
Boots is a Netflix coming-of-age series set in a 1990 Marine Corps training program. The story follows Cameron Cope, a gay teenager played by Miles Heizer, who leaves an unstable home life to join the Marines seeking change and identity. Cameron is out to his straight best friend Ray and hopes military service will provide direction. The series traces Cameron’s struggles through boot camp and family instability, emphasizing personal discovery over enforced conformity. Boots insists that drill instructors and masculine rituals cannot manufacture identity, and that becoming a man involves understanding oneself rather than adopting prescribed standards.
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