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May 8
Everywhere!
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Invites You To
Celebrate Tom of Finland Day
Wherever you are. Raise your glasses. Celebrate Tom of Finland's (Touko Laaksonen's) Birthday. Create your own event on Facebook and post the event or announcement on the
Tom of Finland Day 2016 Page. (Also link to the ToF FB event from your event)
Add photos. Add stories. Show your pride. Take the party 'round the globe.
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May 8, 2016
Los Angeles, CA
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Tom of Finland Foundation
Presents a:
Life Drawing Workshop - Special Edition
In Honor of Tom of Finland's Birthday
We will be filming a segment for "The Underwear Expert".
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May 8, 2016
Helsinki, Finland
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Taidehalli
Invites you to
Celebrate Tom with His Art
Welcome to the celebration of Tom of Finland's (Touko Laaksonen's) 96th birthday! At The Pleasure of Play.
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May 6 - August 7, 2016
Helsinki, Finland
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Taidehalli
Invites You To
Tom of Finland: The Pleasure of Play
The most comprehensive Tom of Finland exhibition to date, spanning six decades to include more than 180 drawings, 1930s childhood paper dolls, the full set of 1940s gouaches along with triptychs, individual drawings, storyboards and over 300 reference pages.
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New York, NY
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Tom of Finland Print All Over Me
Celebrate a digital to real world collection of apparel and limited edition print. Preview and shop the collection IRL.
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Helsinki, Finland
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The United States Embassy in Helsinki, Finland
Presents:
Tom of Finland:
Subversive Radical or Liberating Humanitarian?
Join Durk Dehner, President and Co-founder of the Tom of Finland Foundation, in an interactive discussion on Touko Laaksonen, a Finnish artist who became TOM OF FINLAND.
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Los Angeles, CA
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ONE
Presents:
Cock Paper, Scissors
At Plummer Park
An exhibition of 15 artists on queer collage drawn from the archives alongside work by contemporary artists.
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On April 2nd, Jeffrey Erdman was named Mr. Los Angeles Leather 2016. Jeffery is a member and supporter of Tom of Finland Foundation. Tom of Finland Foundation, along with the ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives and Sexual Minorities Uganda were named charity partners by the LA Leather Pride Committee for 2016.
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Photo by Miguel Angel Reyes
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TOM's Foundation at Los Angeles Leather Pride 2016, honoring the leather community.
Sun, Sweat, Muscle: Photos of L.A. Leather Weekend
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A very special thanks to the staff at The Barracks, Valentine Hooven, Drew D. Kramer, Cyn Duby, Joseph N. Aldrich, Joshua Green, Yves Moralex, and Jordan Frink.
The Tom of Finland Easter Beer Bust would have been impossible without your time and dedication.
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CARRINGTON GALEN
Carr's Memorial Celebration
On Tuesday morning April 12, 2016
Carr passed away from complications from cancer.
He passed away at the beautiful Carrington Galen's Pleas
ure Park which he created at Tom of Finland Foundation.
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Book Launch Celebrated in Los Angeles
TOM House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles
The book
TOM House: Tom of Finland in Los Angeles was launched with receptions at the David Kordansky Gallery and TOM House.
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Tom's House: Inside Tom of Finland's Los Angeles Home
An Article in
W Magazine
At 1421 Laveta Terrace in Echo Park, Los Angeles, there stands a house walled by tall, bushy hedges. If passersby think that the owners are trying to hide something, though, they'd be mistaken. Tom House is named after the artist who occupied the attic bedroom for the last 10 years of his life: Touko Laaksonen, better known by his pseudonym, Tom of Finland.
He made a career out of exposing the hidden - his drawings depicted gay men in exaggerated sexual positions - and the house is home to
Tom of Finland Foundation, though that mundane designation undersells the collective of free-spirited characters inside.
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A Mecca of Leather Culture at a House in Echo Park
TOM House. Photograph by Martyn Thompson
From outside it's a regular four-story Craftsman-style house on a quiet street in Echo Park. But its tall hedge conceals an unusual interior: the house is a foundation for Tom of Finland, the Finnish illustrator who made homoerotic illustrations of men, mostly having fun with each other while wearing elaborate leather outfits.
Tom of Finland himself lived in the house and now it is seeking cultural landmark status. It was founded by Durk Dehner in 1984, a former model and Tom of Finland fan who convinced Tom to come to LA.
Frances Anderton interviews Marc Ransdell Bellenger,
Mayer Rus and Michael Reynolds
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MARTIN OF HOLLAND: The Brown Book
A Treasure and Collector's Item for True Admirers
Over the past 20 years, db/queerart has worked only as a nonprofit promotional tool for Queer artists, collectors and promoters/researchers. We've become respected and appreciated by some of the world's greatest Homo artists, galleries ad organisations.
Not in the least through the relentless input and uncompromising stand of our fellow founding member Martin van de Logt.
That is why his close friends and admirers of his art, together with the custodians of his art legacy decided that we could best honour his memory by presenting a printed tribute anthology with over 140 of his greatest works together with written articles by fellow Queer art promoter and Tom of Finland Foundation president Durk Dehner in LA; fellow NYC, SF and Amsterdam artist REX; LA art historian and artist Richard Hawkins; and myself, Ad Schuring.
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A Generous Donation from
Mark Timothy Hayward
The triptych casts Freud in the roles of his own three-part structural model of the psyche: id, ego and super-ego. Hayward chose to depict the id, source of our bodily needs, desires and impulses, by placing an image of Freud as a young man on a body taken from Tom of Finland's
Service Station story.
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Durk talks on Finnish radio about Tom
and the Upcoming ToF Musical
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The New Yorker Presents:
Is Tom's Work Porn, or is it Art?
An Amazon original series.
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Tom of Finland by Finlayson Window Display at
Stockmann Helsinki Department Store
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Tom of Finland Biceps and Bums
to Adorn Coffee Packages
The homo-erotic figures popularised by Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen are soon to become a part of morning pick-me-up routines as they adorn coffee packaging. The Robert Paulig Roastery will turn up the heat on its coffee products with four new package designs for is filter coffee and roasted coffee bean products.
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"YES, I Support the Erotic Arts!"
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