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Home for the Golden Gays, the Glossary

The Home for the Golden Gays (HGG), or simply The Golden Gays, is a Philippine non-profit organization that provides support and care facilities for elderly LGBTQ people.^[1]

Bakla

In the Philippines, a baklâ (Tagalog and Cebuano), bayot (Cebuano) or agî (Hiligaynon) is a person who was assigned male at birth and has adopted a gender expression that is feminine.

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Columnist

A columnist is a person who writes for publication in a series, creating an article that usually offers commentary and opinions.

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Comfort women

Comfort women were women and girls forced into sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Armed Forces in occupied countries and territories before and during World War II.

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Drag show

A drag show is a form of entertainment performed by drag artists impersonating men or women, typically in a bar or nightclub.

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Filipino language

Filipino (Wikang Filipino) is a language under the Austronesian language family.

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Imperial Japanese Army

The (IJA) was the principal ground force of the Empire of Japan.

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Japanese occupation of the Philippines

The Japanese occupation of the Philippines (Filipino: Pananakop ng mga Hapones sa Pilipinas; Nihon no Firipin Senryō) occurred between 1942 and 1945, when the Japanese Empire occupied the Commonwealth of the Philippines during World War II.

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Justo Justo

Panfilo Cagoco Justo (September 21, 1941 – May 18, 2012), widely known as Justo Justo, or simply JJ, was a Filipino columnist and Pasay city councilor.

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Ladlad

Ladlad (Tagalog for "coming out," "The Unfurled", from the swardspeak pagladlad ng kapa unfurling one's cape), formerly Ang Ladlad LGBT Party Inc. and sometimes colloquially known as "the LGBT party", is a Filipino lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) political party. Home for the Golden Gays and Ladlad are LGBT organizations based in the Philippines.

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LGBT

is an initialism that stands for "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender".

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LGBT rights in the Philippines

Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals in the Republic of the Philippines have faced many difficulties in their homeland, such as displays of discrimination, prejudice, bigotry, hostility, violence, hatred, abuse, assault, harassment and other forms of anti-LGBT rhetoric.

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Markova: Comfort Gay

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.

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Nonprofit organization

A nonprofit organization (NPO), also known as a nonbusiness entity, nonprofit institution, or simply a nonprofit (using the adjective as a noun), is a legal entity organized and operated for a collective, public or social benefit, as opposed to an entity that operates as a business aiming to generate a profit for its owners.

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Nursing home

A nursing home is a facility for the residential care of older people, senior citizens, or disabled people.

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Pasay

Pasay, officially the City of Pasay (Lungsod ng Pasay), is a 1st class highly urbanized city in the National Capital Region of the Philippines.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Sangguniang Panlungsod

The Sangguniang Panlungsod (SP) is the local legislative body of a city government in the Philippines.

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Sexual slavery

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.

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Swardspeak

Swardspeak (also known as gayspeak or "gay lingo") is an argot or cant slang derived from Taglish (Tagalog-English code-switching) and used by a number of LGBT people in the Philippines.

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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.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_for_the_Golden_Gays

Also known as Golden Gays, The Golden Gays.