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Andy Parker: BOOTS on Netflix, Don’t Ask Don’t Tell & Queer Storytelling
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Ever felt the pressure to hide your true self just to belong? On this week’s BabyGay™ Podcast, host PJ Brescia (they/them) sits down with Andy Parker (he/him) writer, creator and co-showrunner of Netflix’s new queer drama BOOTS. Inspired by Greg Cope White’s memoir The Pink Marine, BOOTS follows a gay recruit navigating Marine Corps boot camp before “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”—a story that’s funny, harrowing, and deeply human.
Andy shares how his own closeted 90s adolescence shaped the series, why secrecy harms both people and institutions, and what it took to bring BOOTS to life…
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