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Walter Dempster Jr. (May 20, 1924 – June 24, 2005), better known by his
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Walterina Markova, was a Filipino gay man who was forced as a " comfort gay" (sex slave
Sexual slavery and sexual exploitation is an attachment of any ownership right over one or more people with the intent of coercing or otherwise forcing them to engage in sexual activities. This includes forced labor, reducing a person to a s ...
) for Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.
Biography
After Markova left home, he joined a group of sixcross-dressing
Cross-dressing is the act of wearing clothes usually worn by a different gender. From as early as pre-modern history, cross-dressing has been practiced in order to disguise, comfort, entertain, and self-express oneself.
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performers. It was as part of this group that he was arrested by Japanese soldiers, and taken to a camp which is now the Rizal Memorial Sports Complex. For several years he and his companions, and other "comfort gays", were put to forced labor and abused sexually by Japanese soldiers, as the "comfort women
Comfort women or comfort girls were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II. The term "comfort women" is a translation of the Japanese '' ia ...
" were abused.
His story was made into a film called '' Markova: Comfort Gay'' in 2000
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, directed by Gil Portes. It was included in the 2002
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Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival and the San Francisco International Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.
Personal life
He spent the last years of his life at the Home for the Golden Gays in Pasay. He died at the age of 81 when he was accidentally hit by a cyclist. He was quoted as saying: "As humans, we won’t live long. Revealing my own story is my way of inspiring other gays who continue to be oppressed today. By my act, I may have probably given freedom to many other gay people."See also
* Rosa Henson *Justo Justo
Justo Justo (September 21, 1941 – May 18, 2012) was a Filipino columnist and Pasay city councilor. He was known as a flamboyant AIDS activist.
Early life
Panfilo C. Justo, widely known as Justo C. Justo or simply JJ, came from a poor family i ...
* Home for the Golden Gays
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