Netflix's 'Boots' Is a Funny and Heartfelt Exploration of Gay Masculinity

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I didn’t know what to expect from Netflix’s Boots , which stars Miles Heizer ( 13 Reasons Why ) as Cameron Cope, an 18-year-old closeted teenager in the ’90s who’s been bullied his entire life. In an act of defiance, he joins the Marines with his best friend, Ray (Liam Oh). Boots follows their grueling 13 weeks in boot camp.

At first, it plays like a Stripes -style comedy, filled with the usual boot camp archetypes anyone who’s seen a military movie will recognize: the hard-ass drill sergeants with creative insults, and the expected lineup of recruits — the Asian guy, the Black guy, the toxically masculine guy, the newlywed obsessed with his wife, the mismatched twins (one ove

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