Locally, more and more content is starting to portray the stories of the LGBTQ+ community, through Filipino LGBTQ+ movies and series. And as the times are changing, we realize that these stories aren’t just between a boy and a girl. "Ako ang nagpasimuno ng mga pabakla-bakla na yan.We’re all suckers for a good onscreen story about friendship and love – all of which are human experiences that connect us to each other. 27, 2010 interview with television host Arnold Clavio, Dolphy was asked by what his memorable film roles were.“Ang memorable sa akin ay yung mga pagbabakla,” he said. "That’s a game-changing thing in the heterosexual world.” In a Dec. “Dolphy made it okay, no-big-deal, to cross-dress and play gay so much so that people like Joey de Leon, Michael V, Ogie, and even Vic Sotto weren’t scared to do 'faggotry' and serious 'faggotry' at that,” said Gallaga. “(Dolphy’s portrayal of gays) was in a way the more subversive road towards acceptance by Pinoy society at large, without preaching, sermonizing, or the expected Brocka political agenda movie,” said Gallaga in the interview. Gallaga commended Dolphy for breaking barriers in Filipino cinema by being a heterosexual man being comfortable portraying a homosexual man.
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While expressing admiration for his impact as an entertainer, Tiongson, a respected cultural scholar, wrote in a letter to the editor in the Philippine Daily Inquirer on Monday: “I believed that the two icons he created for film and TV – the screaming gay and the happy-go-lucky poor man – have, in the majority of his movies, equated gayness with abnormality and mindless frivolity on the one hand, and romanticized or deodorized poverty on the other." Writer Angela Stuart-Santiago published a blog entry on Tuesday about her interview with multi-awarded Filipino filmmaker Peque Gallaga. Guidote-Alvarez said former Cultural Center of the Philippines President Nicanor Tiongson, disapproved of the way Dolphy portrayed gays in his films. However, it was revealed recently by National Artist for Theater Cecile Guidote-Alvarez that even as early as 2009, Dolphy could have become a National Artist.
Because of Dolphy's contributions to Philippine cinema, influential supporters pushed for the Comedy King to become a National Artist. For this movie, Dolphy and his two sons Eric and Jeffrey Quizon (who both played younger versions of Markova) won the equivalent of a Best Actor Award in Brussels, Belgium. Markova, an aging man who was a comfort gay during World War II. In “Markova: Comfort Gay” directed by Gil Portes and written by Clodualdo del Mundo, Jr., Dolphy played the real-life persona of Walter Dempster, Jr., a.k.a.
It took him all of 15 seconds to come up with this face." Wig TysmansIn the film “Ang Tatay Kong Nanay,” directed by Lino Brocka ad written by Orlando Nadres is about a gay beautician named Dioscoro Derecho, nicknamed Coring, in love with a man who leaves him, returns sometime later with a child entrusted to Coring’s care.
Portrait photographer Wig Tysmans says of his subject: "I asked him if he could portray the classic theater masks otherwise known as 'Comedy and Tragedy.' He obliged.
This portrait was taken of the legendary entertainer in 2001 when he was 73 years old and still as active as ever.