""I certainly never set out to make anything that was propaganda and I reject the idea that it is. What I would invite people to do is to watch and see how they feel about the questions the show is trying to provoke. We were on an emotional mission. There's politics involved in all of these questions: what's happening to trans people now, and the policies that are being inflicted on trans service members.""
""not compromise standards to satisfy an ideological agenda, unlike Netflix whose leadership consistently produces and feeds woke garbage to their audience and children""
""What our show shines the light on is, what is the cost to the people who are affected by those policies? What is the cost to the institution itself, when they have to inflict that on service members who want to serve honourably and with dignity?""
Boots is a Netflix queer drama adapted from Greg Cope White's memoir The Pink Marine that follows a closeted teenager who enlists in the US Marine Corps and encounters deep homophobia at boot camp. The series is set in 1990, when being gay in the armed forces was illegal. Pentagon press secretary Kingsley Wilson criticised the show, saying the military is restoring the warrior ethos and accusing Netflix of producing 'woke garbage'. The series reached number two on global Netflix charts with 9.4 million views and 55.2 million hours watched. Creator Andy Parker rejects claims of propaganda and frames the series as an emotional mission examining the human and institutional cost of policies affecting trans and gay service members.
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