“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. In an interview for a college paper with this writer in 2000, Walter Dempster Jr., a.k.a. As their stories were being documented by women groups, human rights activists and journalists including TV anchor Loren Legarda, one soul found the courage to come out of the closet and share his own nightmare. Armed Forces in the Far East), the Filipinos suffered grievously under the Japanese Imperial Army.Īmong these Filipinos was Lola Rosa who, together with other aging “comfort women,” in the 1990s related the horrors of being forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers. For over three years and until the day Japan surrendered to the USAFFE (or U.S. The Japanese occupation 60 years ago was a difficult time for the Philippines. A hidden chapter of those dark times is the story of “comfort gays.” In the Philippines, the end of the war was hardly observed even if only to reflect upon the atrocities committed at that time with the Filipinos as the principal victims. World War II in the Pacific ended 60 years ago with the infamous bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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