Max Parker's character, Sergeant Liam Robert Sullivan, has a complex backstory involving Major Wilkinson, raising questions about his personal life.
In the Netflix series Boots, loosely based on Greg Cope White's memoir The Pink Marine, a closeted gay teenager named Cameron Cope enlists in the marines in the 1990s with his best friend Ray McAffey.
At the time, it was illegal to be openly gay in the US military, and Boots explores the negative repercussions of that law, affecting characters like Cameron Cope and potentially Sergeant Sullivan.
Author's summary: Exploring Sergeant Sullivan's backstory in Boots.