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Contents:

• MARKOVA: 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
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• 'COMFORT GAY' MARKOVA IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A NEW MIL
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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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.

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.

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

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. 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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. 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.

"Markova: Comfort Gay" tells the story of Walter Dempster Jr. Waltera Markova, who was forced to serve as a “fort gay” durg the Japane occupatn era Manila.

MARKOVA: 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.

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

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

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

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].

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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

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

RDK: Is that where you beme a fort gay?

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

He was a notor gay.