Walterina Markova

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" (sex slave) for Imperial Japanese Army soldiers during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines in World War II.

[1] After Markova left home, he joined a group of six cross-dressing 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.

[2] His story was made into a film called Markova: Comfort Gay in 2000, directed by Gil Portes.

[3] He spent the last years of his life at the Home for the Golden Gays in Pasay.