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 ...

When I worked on the 1st Marine Division’s staff back from 2004-2007, I was part of a team that had to “find” officers and senior enlisted Marines to send to Iraq. Later, I was part of a team that had ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “I do think that just the premise of the show, before you engage with it, before you really know what it is, incites a reaction ...

In “Boots,” a new miniseries set in 1990, Miles Heizer plays Cameron Cope, a scrawny, bullied gay teenager who is out only to his best (and only) friend, Ray (Liam Oh). Ray, who is joining the Marines ...

Military misfits have been one of the tried-and-true premises for TV series for decades, going back to the days of The Phil Silvers Show. Even more “serious” military shows like M*A*S*H were fill of ...

HONOLULU — Sgt. Brandon Morgan didn't expect to become a global phenomenon when he kissed his partner upon returning from a six-month deployment to Afghanistan. But then last weekend a friend posted a ...

Mey Rude is a journalist and cultural critic who has been covering queer news for a decade. The transgender, Latina lesbian lives in Los Angeles with her fiancée.

Boots outperformed Nobody Wants This. So why did Netflix cancel it? Netflix's latest Engagement Report showed relatively strong viewership of the gay Marines series compared with other shows that were ...

When I worked on the 1st Marine Division’s staff back from 2004-2007, I was part of a team that had to “find” officers and senior enlisted Marines to send to Iraq. Later, I was part of a team that had ...