Miles Heizer is still trying to wrap his head around the fact that he is starring in a Netflix series .

And it’s not just any series. The 31-year-old out gay actor toplines the eight-episode coming-of-age dramedy “ Boots ” as Cameron Cope, a high school senior who is grappling with being gay when he unexpectedly enlists in the U.S. Marines with his straight best friend (Liam Oh) to escape his chaotic family life.

The show is based on “The Pink Marine,” Greg Cope White’s 2015 memoir about joining the Marines in 1990 when LGBTQ people were barred from serving in the military.

“A guy came up to me the other day at the gym and said, ‘Are you in “Boots”?’ I was in the Coast Guard and I’m gay,’” Heizer tells me over tea on a Friday afternoon at Botanica Restaurant and Market in the Silve

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