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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Entertainment
Benjamin Lee

Pentagon criticises Netflix for making ‘woke garbage’ after gay military drama

men in yellow and red gym uniforms run outside
Liam Oh and Miles Heizer in Boots. Photograph: Alfonso "Pompo" Bresciani/Netflix © 2023

The Pentagon has slammed Netflix for making “woke garbage” after the release of the hit gay military drama Boots.

The show, based on Greg Cope White’s 2015 memoir The Pink Marine, tells the story of a closeted teenager who enlists in the United States Marine Corps in the 1990s.

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