Markova: Comfort Gay. Produced by Ródolfo Quizon; directed by Gil Port; screenplay by Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr. 2000; lor; 97 mut. Distributed by Vagrant Films | The Amerin Historil Review | Oxford Amic

Contents:

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

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

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. 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. My brother didn't want me to be a gay.

But the Amerin ctomers didn't know that I was a gay. 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

They didn't know that I was a gay, bee my stume I looked like a real woman.

" But I jt felt myself as a gay and reee. Even the Amerin women didn't know that I was a gay. 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]. That's what you get for beg a gay.

WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’

I went to this gay iend of ours.

At nighttime, I was a woman and the daytime, I'm a gay. They didn't know that I was a gay.

And some of my gay iends were workg there as receptnists.