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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’
PETER TATCHELL tells the movg story of a gay soldier durg WW2, PRIVATE DUDLEY CAVE. Havg risked his ... * 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.
IN WWII, TWO GAY SOLDIERS’ FORBIDN ROMANCE LIV ON IN THEIR LOVE LETTERS
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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.
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 *
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.
"COMG OUT UNR FIRE": THE STORY OF GAY AND LBIAN SERVICEMEMBERS
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They didn't know that I was a gay.
A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
And some of my gay iends were workg there as receptnists. RDK: Is that where you beme a fort gay?
MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
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. " They paid me, but they didn't know that I was a gay.
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?