‎Markova: Comfort Gay (2000) directed by Gil Port • Reviews, film + st • Letterboxd

Contents:

• A GAY INSPIRATN: GET TO KNOW WALTERA MARKOVA, A COMFORT GAY OF THE 1940S
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT GAY’
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY 2000 (PHILIPP)
• MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY
• HOW DOLPHY'S 'COMFORT GAY' FILM MA HISTORY AT BSSELS
• 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

WALTERA MARKOVA: THE ‘COMFORT 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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

Directed by Gil Port and penned by Clodualdo l Mundo Jr., the film is loosely based on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last survivg Filipo "fort gay" (male sex slav for Japane army) om World War follows the tular Markova om his younger years until he beme a sex slave durg the Japane occupancy of the Philipp.

It also tackl faiar them of toxic masculy, AIDS and discrimatns towards homosexuals lol culture- how eedom don't really e easy for members of the LGBT muny, and how they are always judged as shams even though they're jt beg their te selv. As expected, 's got that old school pictn of gays that Filipo dienc have been acctomed to for years. Markova: Comfort Gay.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

Gay them and exploative melodrama have often been queasy bedfellows Filipo cema, but "Markova: Comfort Gay" may rep a new nceptual low. Gay them and exploative melodrama have often been queasy bedfellows Filipo cema, but “Markova: Comfort Gay” may rep a new nceptual low.

Even gay fts may fd this a b too tastels for fort. No doubt the era’s vlence clud homosexual as well as hetero rape, but hyperbolic prentatn here is srcely nvcg on any level.

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY (2000)

At first disappoted that Markova was actually a gay, she nohels agreed to rerd his story. 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.

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.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY 2000 (PHILIPP)

At the age of 18 – the age for women adolcence – Markova, together wh his gay iends, were not spared om such “service.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

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.

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

Markova: Comfort Gays is a bgraphil-drama of year 2000 based on the existence of Walter Dempster Jr., the only and last Filipo survivor or the “fort gay” (sex slav for Japane army) om World War II. This the time when he starts flirtg at night, he danced different night clubs, his dience who were Amerin soldiers did’nt notice that he is a gay. Gays, transgenrs and bisexuals starts to make their own reputatn nowadays.

MARKOVA: COMFORT GAY

"Kuma ang pelikulang o ng P190M sa takilya noong Metro Manila Film Ftival 2000 pero ang dami pa rg ignorante at homophobic makalipas ang dalawampung taon. The story wasn't jt foced on the gays as fort gays but also tell a story of a great iendship, beg te to yourself and three different performanc of the tular character om the Quizons were sanely amazg.

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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.

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.