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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.
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.
Sep 5, 2022 · During the Japanese conquest of the Philippines in World War II, served as a “comfort gay” (sex slave) by force was Markova, a Filipino-Jamaican gay man for soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. At the time, homosexuality was regarded as a social taboo and a sin.
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.
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.
