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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
Jacqui Sadashige; Markova: Comfort Gay. Produced by Ródolfo Quizon; directed by Gil Port; screenplay by Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr. 2000; lor; 97 mut. Distr * markova comfort gay reaction paper *
Is the last livg man to have been a fort gay to the Japane Occupatn troops Manila durg World War II.
MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
Waltera Markova is an spiratn to the gays for beg a fort gay to the Japane Occupatn troops Manila durg World War II. * markova comfort gay reaction paper *
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.
WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT 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. 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.