Stepping into Boots

Stepping into Boots


By Michael Pickard
October 24, 2025

SHOWRUNNER

Boots creator and co-showrunner Andy Parker tells DQ how he was inspired by a memoir and his own experiences to tell the comedic and dramatic coming-of-age story of a Marine recruit confronting his sexuality when it was illegal to be gay in the US military.

 

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