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. Written by Clodualdo Del Mundo Jr. and directed by Gil M. Portes, the film tells the story of her hardships during her childhood and her travail during the Second World War. The character was played by actor Dolphy, who played the adult Markova while two of his sons, Eric Quizon and Jeffrey Quizon, played the role of two younger Markovas in two more different phases of her life.

Plot

Walterina Markova is a devout Catholic and elderly drag queen who lives at the Home for the Golden Gays and trains Japan-bound entertainers for a living. After watching a report by Loren Legarda on comfort women during World War II, Markova suffers an emotional breakdown and nightmares about her wartime experience. After praying in church, Markova resolves to tell her story and persuades the home's founder, Councilor Justo Justo, to arrange for an interview with Loren. The latter, who initially assumes that she would be interviewing another comfort woman, is shocked when Markova reveals herself to be the "comfort gay" she is looking for, but agrees nevertheless to hear out her story, which she records on tape.