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Contents:

• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• COMFORT GAY
• RAY COMFORT RPONDS TO THE GAY COMMUNY
• HOW DOLPHY'S 'COMFORT GAY' FILM MA HISTORY AT BSSELS
• 'COMFORT GAY' MARKOVA IS NOW THE SUBJECT OF A NEW MIL

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

Everyone's fort characters are eher ad, gay, trmatized, or mass murrers. (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.

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

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

COMFORT GAY

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.

The Portrayal of Gays Popular Filipo Films, 2000 to 2010 on JSTOR. Is the last livg man to have been a fort gay to the Japane Occupatn troops Manila durg World War II.

RAY COMFORT RPONDS TO THE GAY COMMUNY

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.