Waltera Markova: The 'Comfort Gay' - Bulatlat

Contents:

• A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
• WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAYSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE
• SEXUAL INTY, STIGMA, AND DEPRSN: THE ROLE OF THE "ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAW" MENTAL HEALTH AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN MOSW, RSIA
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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

(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. At the time, homosexualy was regard as a social taboo and a s.

WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’

Lookg back at the story of Waltera Markova, a fort gay of the 1940s. Whout anyone noticg, he and his gay iends enjoyed cross-drsg.

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. Beg a fort 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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. 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.

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. 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

" But I jt felt myself as a gay and reee.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

Even the Amerin women didn't know that I was a gay.

MARKOVA: COMFORT 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.

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. RDK: Is that where you beme a fort gay? He was a notor gay.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

But he was not a real gay.

They told the soldiers, "Punish those goddamn gays.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAYSTREAM AND WATCH ONLE

Image, they didn't know that we were gays, bee the provce, they don't know the difference between a gay and a woman. " They paid me, but they didn't know that I was a gay.

SEXUAL INTY, STIGMA, AND DEPRSN: THE ROLE OF THE "ANTI-GAY PROPAGANDA LAW" MENTAL HEALTH AMONG MEN WHO HAVE SEX WH MEN MOSW, RSIA

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. RDK: Was he gay?

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

RDK: But he was not gay?

Markova: No, he was not gay.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

RDK: And you're gay, but he's not gay.

RDK: Gay sex?

COMFORT GAY

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. Even most of the movie actors durg this time were gay lovers. RDK: But not gay.

Markova: They are not gay. Markova: They jt love gays. RDK: But they are not gay.

RDK: How did your story bee ma to the movie, Markova: Comfort Gay? Image, I'm a gay and they appreciated my te story. 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?

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

"Oh, I don't believe the gays.

A hidn chapter of those dark tim is the story of “fort gays. “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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

They were even angered by the fact that we were gays and not women.