If Valentine’s Day is for sweets, then 15th February is for suckers. Come join host Rick Castro for an afternoon of finger sandwiches, hand-blended tea, and stimulating conversation. Space is limited, so be sure to RSVP now!

Curated by Tony Solis, photographer and editor-in-chief of Y-NOT Magazine and creator of Pequeños Bribones (art gallery), presented are works by: Slava Mogutin (Russia), Rubén Esparza (United States) and Stuart Sandford (United Kingdom), with Donovan Quiroz (Mexico), and Tony Solis.

We will be inside at TOM House; masks are required. Room for 15 artists only in the live session. MODEL: Adrian Hart. 11:00a-1:30p (PST). Join in person OR online. Sign up early for a discount!

Tom of Finland: Highway Patrol, Greasy Rider, and Other Selected Works features collages and drawings by the iconic artist. At the center of the exhibition is a full suite of impeccably rendered drawings from the series Kake vol. 21 – “Greasy Rider” (1978) and Kake vol. 22 – “Highway Patrol” (1980).

Manos Amigues presents a new exhibition of work from Bruce LaBruce and Slava Mogutin. Both are important independent voices in the Queer art scene and good friends for 25 years. This month they are having their first joint exhibition of photographic works as Cabrones de Armas.

We will be drawing from a live male model in a variety classical poses and highly graphic depictions of homoerotic nudity and sex. We will be inside at TOM House; masks are required. Room for 15 artists only in the live session.

MODEL: Adrian Hart

It's hand-blended tea - with a twist of fetish. Rick Castro serves up delightful goodies alongside stimulating conversation.

Join us!

The opening at Mexico City’s first LGBT+ community center also featured films by Kris Canavan, Christeene, Harry Clayton-Wright, Yves De Brabander, David Hoyle, Dominic Johnson, Brian Kenny, Bruce LaBruce, Mathieu & Leolo, Matt Lambert, Murphy Maxwell, Daniel McKernan, Slava Mogutin, No Bra, Patriarchy, Peaches, PJ Raval, A.L. Steiner, Vaginal Davis, Lex Vaughn and David Wilson. Wow!

Last week, the art world podcast Nota Bene visited Tom of Finland: Highway Patrol, Greasy Rider, and Other Selected Works at David Kordansky Gallery New York. Cohosts Nate Freeman and Benjamin Godsill discussed the panel prior to the opening, as well as the exhibition itself. “You know what I didn’t bring my children to…” is how the episode began... Listen to the clip!

Durk Dehner interviews Fall 2022 artist-in-residence Carta Monir about time spent at TOM House. Carta is an artist, porn performer, and micropress publisher currently living in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

“I don’t even remember there not being a Tom of Finland,” said writer Brontez Purnell. The crowd laughed and nodded at Purnell’s impossible truth.The world existed before Tom began thrusting his technically astonishing, unabashedly explicit illustrations of swole men with swollen members into the hands of anyone who would take it.

“There is a thread that connects Latinx people. It is a soulful link, which is indelible; A lineage that carries the profusion of cultures, ways, and self-identification. Many are newcomers to this country, cutting new paths."

-– Rubén Esparza, curator