PETER TATCHELL tells the movg story of a gay soldier durg WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Havg risked his ...
Contents:
- WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’
- IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
- A GAY SOLDIER'S STORY
- "COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
- A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
- MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’
* comfort gay ww2 *
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.
IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
Gay and Lbian soldiers faced extraordary discrimatn durg World War II. Most found new muni of people and thrived spe the opprsn. Disver the film Comg Out Unr Fire that shar their story. * comfort gay ww2 *
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.
A GAY SOLDIER'S STORY
Waltera Markova is an spiratn to the gays for beg a fort gay to the Japane Occupatn troops Manila durg World War II. * comfort gay ww2 *
" 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].
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
Markova: Comfort Gay (Philipp Movie); Markova: Comfort Gay; Markova: Comfort Gay A Te Story; Based loosely on the experienc of Walter Dempster Jr., aka * comfort gay ww2 *
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.
A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
They didn't know that I was a gay. And some of my gay iends were workg there as receptnists.
MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
RDK: Is that where you beme a fort gay? He was a notor gay.
But he was not a real gay. They told the soldiers, "Punish those goddamn gays.
Image, they didn't know that we were gays, bee the provce, they don't know the difference between a gay and a woman.