This “boot camp” is designed to give school-age children a glimpse of life as an enlisted Marine while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community. In another sense, the event also helped ...

In 1998, The Jenny Jones Show aired a segment called “Boot Camp My Preteen,” featuring a former Marine sergeant who used ...

"Boots," adapted from the memoir "The Pink Marine," follows a gay man who enlisted with the dream of changing his future, but ...

The year is 1990, and closeted gay teen Cameron has just had his head shaved and clothes stripped, and he’s eaten lunch scraps out of the bin. It’s not quite the summer camp adventure Cameron had ...

Netflix’s new series Boots, released on Oct. 9, is a coming-of-age dramedy that takes viewers back to the 1990s U.S. Marine Corps — a time when being gay in the military was still illegal and “Don’t ...

Ten-hut! Netflix just airdropped in the first official trailer for gay marine boot camp dramedy Boots, one of our most anticipated shows of the fall. Adapted from Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink ...

As a closeted gay teen growing up in Glendale, Arizona, in the 1990s, Andy Parker once invited a Marine Corps recruiter to his house to convince his conservative, evangelical parents to let him join ...

“Boots” opens in 1990 in a recruiter’s office in New Orleans. With the chaos of high school and its constant bullying behind him, Cameron Cope (a perfectly cast Miles Heizer) is desperate for a new ...

A reader takes issue with her parents’ prominent display of a photo of her brother fresh out of Marine boot camp, considering that he later deserted his post. By Philip Galanes My brother was briefly ...