Markova: Comfort Gay - Variety

Contents:

• WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’
• A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
• HOW DOLPHY'S 'COMFORT GAY' FILM MA HISTORY AT BSSELS
• COMFORT GAY
• WHERE COMFORT MEETS INCLN: THE 20 BT GAY HOTELS IN THE WORLD!
• 'COMFORT GAY' MARKOVA IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A NEW MIL
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• EVANGELIST RAY COMFORT SAYS HOMOSEXUALS WERE BORN GAY; CLAIMG ALL PEOPLE HAVE SFUL NATURE BUT SOME CHOOSE TO GIVE [INTERVIEW]SCREEN GRABBREATHEST UGHT UP WH WELL-KNOWN EVANGELIST RAY COMFORT TO TALK ABOUT HIS NEW FILM 'AUDACY' WHICH HE NONTS THE LITE SUBJECT OF HOMOSEXUALY AND CHRISTIANY.THE FILM IS G AT AN TERTG TIME BEG THAT HISTORY WAS MA THIS YEAR WH THE SUPREME COURT LG OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. COMFORT'S FILM SERV AS A PERFECT EVANGELISM TOOL FOR CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO PEACEFULLY SHARE THE TTH OF THE BIBLE WH THE LGBTQ MUNY.UNLIKE THE POPULAR CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT THAT HOMOSEXUALS WERE NOT BORN GAY, COMFORT TAK A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH HOMOSEXUALS HIS NEW FILM WHICH MATAS THAT THEY ARE BORN THAT WAY. WHEN ASKED TO EXPLA THAT STATEMENT FURTHER THE NEW ZEALAND NATIVE CLARIFIED."EVERY ONE OF MAK A CHOICE TO M ADULTERY, TO FORNITE, TO LOOK AT PORNOGRAPHY TO LIE AND STEAL. IN ONCE SENSE WE WERE BORN WH BEE WE WERE BORN WH A SFUL NATURE. BUT AS A CHOICE WE CHOOSE TO S," HE SAID, "IF WE DIDN'T CHOOSE TO S THEN GOD WOULDN'T HOLD RPONSIBLE AND GOD NSIRS ALONG WH ADULTERY, FORNITN, LYG AND STEALG, GOD NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY TO BE A S."COMFORT NTUED, "THAT IS A CHOICE THAT THROUGH THE SFUL NATURE BEE WE PREFER OUR OWN PLEASUR RATHER THEN GOD'S WAYS."THE POPULAR STREET EVANGELIST SAYS THERE'S A SOLUTN."THE NEW BIRTH CHANG EVERYTHG. WE ARE BORN WH A SFUL NATURE BUT WHEN WE'RE BORN AGA WE'RE BORN WH A NATURE THAT WANTS TO PLEASE GOD AND THAT'S WHAT WE MT PH," COMFORT ADVISED.IN COMFORT'S MANY EVANGELISM VIOS ON YOUTUBE HE TACKL NTROVERSIAL ISSU THAT MANY AVOID BUT HE BELIEV THAT ORR TO BAT THE ISSUE OF S PEOPLE MT REALLY BE BORN AGA."WE N KEEP SAYG 'LETS KEEP BOYTTG ALL THE PANI.' WELL WE'RE GOG TO END UP BOYTTG OXYGEN. THE WHOLE WORLD HAS GONE PRO-GAY!" HE CLARED. GOG ON TO SAY, "WE ULD KEEP DOG MORE PETNS WE ULD ELECT GODLY MEN, BUT WE HAVE BEEN DOG THAT FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS."COMFORT DO NOT BELIEVE THAT POLICS IS THE ANSWER. "POLICS MERELY SHAK THE BRANCH; THE GOSPEL GO TO THE ROOT OF THE TREE. IT TRANSFORMS THE HUMAN HEART AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT," HE EXPLAED.HE STAED THAT THE CHURCH HAS LOOKED AT THGS NATURAL AND TEMPORAL WHEN THEY SHOULD LOOKG AT THGS "SUPERNATURAL AND ETERNAL.""WE SHOULDN'T BE TRYG TO CLEAN UP AMERI. ALL WE'LL DO IS GET BACK TO THE WAY THGS WERE THE 1950S WHEN YOU DIDN'T LOCK YOUR DOOR AND YOU DIDN'T LOCK YOUR RS AND THERE WAS NO VLENCE THE STREETS AS THERE IS NOW, AND WOULD STILL BE UNR GOD'S WRATH FOR S S," THE LIVG WATERS FOUNR SAID, "WHAT WE WANT TO DO NOW IS WHAT THEY DID THE BOOK OF ACTS. PREACH THE GOSPEL, BEE THERE IS A JUDGMENT DAY AND ALL OF NEED A SAVR, HELL IS A REALY."THE HOPE A SAVR COMFORT HOP WILL REACH THE SOUL OF THE HOMOSEXUAL BEYOND TELLECT. HE TSTS THAT A GENUE NVERSN HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE A PERSONS SIRE TO S."THE TRA OF THE GOSPEL IS RIGHTEO. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE BE A CHRISTIAN IS THEY DON'T M ADULTERY, THEY DON'T LIE, THEY DON'T STEAL, THEY DON'T BEE HOMOSEXUALS, THEY DON'T S, THEY TURN OM S PERPETUALLY BEE THEY'VE GOT A NEW HEART AND NEW SIRE," COMFORT EXPOUND, "SO IF WE WANT TO CLEAN UP AMERI LETS NOT PUT THE RT BEFORE THE HORSE. LET'S PUT THE GOSPEL FIRST. SEEK FIRST THE KGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEONS AND ALL THE OTHER THGS WILL BE ADD TO ."'AUDACY' SERV AS A NVERSATN TOOL BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND THE LGBTQ MUNY. IT DID NOT E OFF AS BIBLE THUMPG AND SENSIVE BUT STEAD OM THE HEART OF SOMEONE WHO GENUELY WANTS TO SHARE THE TTH OF GOD'S WORD WH A MUNY THAT HAS BEEN SGLED OUT. THE FILM IS RELEVANT AND TIMELY AND WAS SEEMLY MA WH THE TENTN OF RAISG AWARENS BUT ALSO PROVIDG THE SIMPLE SOLUTN OF ACCEPTG A SAVR J CHRIST THAT N WASH AWAY ALL SS.READ OUR BC REVIEW HERE.IF YOU ARE TERTED WATCHG THE SHORT FILM OR FDG OUT MORE RMATN VIS LATEST NEWS
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• RAY COMFORT’S ANTI-GAY FILM AUDACY IS A LUDICRO CARITURE OF SELF-RIGHTEO EVANGELISM
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000) - FULL TRANSCRIPT

WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’

Is the last livg man to have been a fort gay to the Japane Occupatn troops Manila durg World War II.

Markova's story of wartime abe is jt part of a larger story about the Philippe gay subculture.

A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S

As Neil Garcia pots out his Philippe Gay Culture, there is a distctn between the bakla or man who subjectively se himself as a woman and his macho partner, the "real man" whom he seeks out for sexual favors. Flirtg wh boys, dancg wh ctomers and even providg sexual servic to Amerin officers (who assumed he was a woman) are part of Walter's gay personaly before, durg and after the war. When we had a gay ronatn, I was the one who performed the floorshow.

HOW DOLPHY'S 'COMFORT GAY' FILM MA HISTORY AT BSSELS

Bee, before my floorshow started, the owner of the club gathered all the employe the club and said, "Tonight our special dancer is a gay, but please don't tell the ctomers.

They didn't know that I was a gay, bee my stume I looked like a real woman. Markova: They didn't know that I'm a gay, bee my iends started teachg me how to put on some make-up.

They knew I was a gay bee I went like that [shows flirty way of bowg]. Image, they didn't know that we were gays, bee the provce, they don't know the difference between a gay and a woman.

COMFORT GAY

They know that we were gays, bee Filipos n tell whether you are a real woman or you are a gay by the way you acted. Markova: Bee the boys that time, even though you are a gay and they know that you are a gay, they make love to you.

RDK: How did your story bee ma to the movie, Markova: Comfort Gay?

I got terviewed by two Japane newspapers, and after the terview, one reporter asked me, "Walter, supposg the Japane ernment will regnise you as beg a fort gay, what do you want to do?

WHERE COMFORT MEETS INCLN: THE 20 BT GAY HOTELS IN THE WORLD!

“Waltera Markova” – a Filipo-Jamain gay – said he was forced to bee a sex slave by the Japane army durg World War II, at a time when homosexualy was then nsired a rdal s and social taboo. Markova’s story had also apparently lured Legarda to the Home of the Goln Gays Pasay Cy supposedly to terview a former fort woman the 1990s. At first disappoted that Markova was actually a gay, she nohels agreed to rerd his story.

He and his gay iends were to cross-drsg whout anybody noticg their te genr.

One day, Japane soldiers were chasg gays after beg tipped off by an rmer that a gay, revenge for his parents’ ath, killed a Japane.

'COMFORT GAY' MARKOVA IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A NEW MIL

A gay iend was arrted and was tied at the gate of San Beda College where passg Japane soldiers beat him up and burned his sk wh cigarett. He was set ee only after another gay spect, believed to be the Japane killer, was ptured.

At the age of 18 – the age for women adolcence – Markova, together wh his gay iends, were not spared om such “service.

The gays were brought to a mp – known today as the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex – where they beme fort drag queens, repeatedly raped far more btally than fort women.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

They were even angered by the fact that we were gays and not women. (May 20, 1924 – June 24, 2005), also known by his alias Waltera Markova, was one of the Filipos who are fort gays of the Japane soldiers, and his story is one of the chapters of those horrible days. Durg the Japane nqut of the Philipp World War II, served as a “fort gay” (sex slave) by force was Markova, a Filipo-Jamain gay man for soldiers of the Imperial Japane Army.

EVANGELIST RAY COMFORT SAYS HOMOSEXUALS WERE BORN GAY; CLAIMG ALL PEOPLE HAVE SFUL NATURE BUT SOME CHOOSE TO GIVE [INTERVIEW]SCREEN GRABBREATHEST UGHT UP WH WELL-KNOWN EVANGELIST RAY COMFORT TO TALK ABOUT HIS NEW FILM 'AUDACY' WHICH HE NONTS THE LITE SUBJECT OF HOMOSEXUALY AND CHRISTIANY.THE FILM IS G AT AN TERTG TIME BEG THAT HISTORY WAS MA THIS YEAR WH THE SUPREME COURT LG OF SAME-SEX MARRIAGE. COMFORT'S FILM SERV AS A PERFECT EVANGELISM TOOL FOR CHRISTIANS WHO WANT TO PEACEFULLY SHARE THE TTH OF THE BIBLE WH THE LGBTQ MUNY.UNLIKE THE POPULAR CHRISTIAN ARGUMENT THAT HOMOSEXUALS WERE NOT BORN GAY, COMFORT TAK A DIFFERENT APPROACH WH HOMOSEXUALS HIS NEW FILM WHICH MATAS THAT THEY ARE BORN THAT WAY. WHEN ASKED TO EXPLA THAT STATEMENT FURTHER THE NEW ZEALAND NATIVE CLARIFIED."EVERY ONE OF MAK A CHOICE TO M ADULTERY, TO FORNITE, TO LOOK AT PORNOGRAPHY TO LIE AND STEAL. IN ONCE SENSE WE WERE BORN WH BEE WE WERE BORN WH A SFUL NATURE. BUT AS A CHOICE WE CHOOSE TO S," HE SAID, "IF WE DIDN'T CHOOSE TO S THEN GOD WOULDN'T HOLD RPONSIBLE AND GOD NSIRS ALONG WH ADULTERY, FORNITN, LYG AND STEALG, GOD NSIRS HOMOSEXUALY TO BE A S."COMFORT NTUED, "THAT IS A CHOICE THAT THROUGH THE SFUL NATURE BEE WE PREFER OUR OWN PLEASUR RATHER THEN GOD'S WAYS."THE POPULAR STREET EVANGELIST SAYS THERE'S A SOLUTN."THE NEW BIRTH CHANG EVERYTHG. WE ARE BORN WH A SFUL NATURE BUT WHEN WE'RE BORN AGA WE'RE BORN WH A NATURE THAT WANTS TO PLEASE GOD AND THAT'S WHAT WE MT PH," COMFORT ADVISED.IN COMFORT'S MANY EVANGELISM VIOS ON YOUTUBE HE TACKL NTROVERSIAL ISSU THAT MANY AVOID BUT HE BELIEV THAT ORR TO BAT THE ISSUE OF S PEOPLE MT REALLY BE BORN AGA."WE N KEEP SAYG 'LETS KEEP BOYTTG ALL THE PANI.' WELL WE'RE GOG TO END UP BOYTTG OXYGEN. THE WHOLE WORLD HAS GONE PRO-GAY!" HE CLARED. GOG ON TO SAY, "WE ULD KEEP DOG MORE PETNS WE ULD ELECT GODLY MEN, BUT WE HAVE BEEN DOG THAT FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS."COMFORT DO NOT BELIEVE THAT POLICS IS THE ANSWER. "POLICS MERELY SHAK THE BRANCH; THE GOSPEL GO TO THE ROOT OF THE TREE. IT TRANSFORMS THE HUMAN HEART AND THAT'S WHAT WE WANT," HE EXPLAED.HE STAED THAT THE CHURCH HAS LOOKED AT THGS NATURAL AND TEMPORAL WHEN THEY SHOULD LOOKG AT THGS "SUPERNATURAL AND ETERNAL.""WE SHOULDN'T BE TRYG TO CLEAN UP AMERI. ALL WE'LL DO IS GET BACK TO THE WAY THGS WERE THE 1950S WHEN YOU DIDN'T LOCK YOUR DOOR AND YOU DIDN'T LOCK YOUR RS AND THERE WAS NO VLENCE THE STREETS AS THERE IS NOW, AND WOULD STILL BE UNR GOD'S WRATH FOR S S," THE LIVG WATERS FOUNR SAID, "WHAT WE WANT TO DO NOW IS WHAT THEY DID THE BOOK OF ACTS. PREACH THE GOSPEL, BEE THERE IS A JUDGMENT DAY AND ALL OF NEED A SAVR, HELL IS A REALY."THE HOPE A SAVR COMFORT HOP WILL REACH THE SOUL OF THE HOMOSEXUAL BEYOND TELLECT. HE TSTS THAT A GENUE NVERSN HAS THE POWER TO CHANGE A PERSONS SIRE TO S."THE TRA OF THE GOSPEL IS RIGHTEO. WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOMEONE BE A CHRISTIAN IS THEY DON'T M ADULTERY, THEY DON'T LIE, THEY DON'T STEAL, THEY DON'T BEE HOMOSEXUALS, THEY DON'T S, THEY TURN OM S PERPETUALLY BEE THEY'VE GOT A NEW HEART AND NEW SIRE," COMFORT EXPOUND, "SO IF WE WANT TO CLEAN UP AMERI LETS NOT PUT THE RT BEFORE THE HORSE. LET'S PUT THE GOSPEL FIRST. SEEK FIRST THE KGDOM OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEONS AND ALL THE OTHER THGS WILL BE ADD TO ."'AUDACY' SERV AS A NVERSATN TOOL BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND THE LGBTQ MUNY. IT DID NOT E OFF AS BIBLE THUMPG AND SENSIVE BUT STEAD OM THE HEART OF SOMEONE WHO GENUELY WANTS TO SHARE THE TTH OF GOD'S WORD WH A MUNY THAT HAS BEEN SGLED OUT. THE FILM IS RELEVANT AND TIMELY AND WAS SEEMLY MA WH THE TENTN OF RAISG AWARENS BUT ALSO PROVIDG THE SIMPLE SOLUTN OF ACCEPTG A SAVR J CHRIST THAT N WASH AWAY ALL SS.READ OUR BC REVIEW HERE.IF YOU ARE TERTED WATCHG THE SHORT FILM OR FDG OUT MORE RMATN VIS LATEST NEWS

Lookg back at the story of Waltera Markova, a fort gay of the 1940s. Bee of the way he looked his stume, the Amerin Navy soldiers were unaware that he was gay.

His buddi were tryg to teach him how to be a lady at the time, but he jt saw himself as gay and reee. He even gave performanc for Japane ctomers which were unaware that he was gay.

Markova eventually found himself alone to tell this story after learng later that his other two gay iends had been killed a raid jt before the Japane occupatn end. He would spend the night the Home for the Goln Gays Pasay Cy, where other senr gay men who had experienced discrimatn also seek refuge. The 26th San Francis Internatnal Lbian and Gay Film Ftival screened the 97-mute film as well as the 2002 Seattle Lbian and Gay Film Ftival.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

Dolphy as Waltera Markova the film Markova: Comfort GayPhoto Creds: IMDb. Revealg my own story is my way of spirg other gays who ntue to be opprsed today. By my act, I may have probably given the eedom to many other gay people.

RAY COMFORT’S ANTI-GAY FILM AUDACY IS A LUDICRO CARITURE OF SELF-RIGHTEO EVANGELISM

While he would have been subjected to atroci by the Japane for beg gay and simply beg himself at the time, queers and trans people at the prent time have to al wh prejudice om society. Port, who directed “Markova: Comfort Gay”, the last film where Dolphy portrayed a gay role, said was a great privilege for him to work wh Dolphy. Waltera Markova, who was forced to serve as a “fort gay” durg the Japane occupatn era Manila.

SuriaBSITComfort GayTheme: A drama and te story of markova pg the torment of growg up wh an abiveolr brother, he and his iends found further sufferg at the hands of Japane soldiers, forced to sex work to survive. “WalteraMarkova” a Filipo Jamain gay said he was forced to bee a sex slave by the Japanearmy durg World War II, at a time when homosexualy was then nsired a rdal s andsocial taboo.

Markova’s story had also apparently lured Legarda to the Home of the GolnGays Pasay Cy supposedly to terview a former fort woman the 1990s.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000) - FULL TRANSCRIPT

At firstdisappoted that Markova was actually a gay, she nohels agreed to rerd his story. He and his gay iends were tocross-drsg whout anybody noticg their te genr. One day, Japane soldiers were chasg gays after beg tipped off by anrmer that a gay, revenge for his parents’ ath, killed a Japane.