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Markova: Comfort Gay is a 2000 Filipino biographical coming-of-age drama film based loosely on the life of Walter Dempster Jr., the last surviving Filipino "comfort gay" (male sex slaves for Imperial Japanese Army) from World War II.
Markova: Comfort Gay: Directed by Gil Portes. With Dolphy, Eric Quizon, Jeffrey Quizon, Loren Legarda. Gil M Portes (Miguel/Michelle, 1999) tells the unconventional true story of Walter Dempster, Jr, otherwise known as Markova.
Sep 3, 2005 · In an interview for a college paper with this writer in 2000, Walter Dempster Jr., a.k.a. “Walterina Markova” – a Filipino-Jamaican gay – said he was forced to become a sex slave by the Japanese army during World War II, at a time when homosexuality was then considered a cardinal sin and social taboo.
Markova: Comfort Gay After watching a documentary about the suffering of comfort women during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Markova decides to reveal his own painful experience under the hands of the Japanese soldiers.
Walter Dempster Jr. (May 20, 1924 – June 24, 2005), better known by his alias Walterina Markova, was a Filipino gay man who was forced as a "comfort gay" for Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Walterina Markova recalls living in the Philippines as a gay man named Walter Dempster Jr. during World War II, a difficult and troubling time. Watch trailers & learn more.
Inalala ni Walterina Markova ang buhay niya sa Pilipinas bilang gay man na may pangalang Walter Dempster Jr. noong World War II, isang mahirap at nakakatakot na panahon. Watch trailers & learn more.
Gil M Portes (Miguel/Michelle, 1999) tells the unconventional true story of Walter Dempster, Jr, otherwise known as Markova. After watching a documentary about the suffering of women forced into prostitution during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines, Markova decides to tell his own painful story to reporter Loren Legarda.
Walter Dempster, Jr. is the last living man to have been a comfort gay to the Japanese Occupation troops in Manila during World War II. His story would have remained one of thousands of personal secrets of wartime shame were it not for the fact that it was dramatised into an award-winning movie.
Featuring a heart-breaking performance from Dolphy at its heart, Markova is full of fleshed out characters buoyed along by the heart-wrenching storytelling of Portes. "In the land of...
