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	Tom of Finland St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Tom of Finland is now considered, in the words of his biographer, "the foremost name in gay erotic art" and the critic Nayland Blake has defined him "one of the gay world's few authentic icons," noting Tom's influence on artists as different as Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
		Tom of Finland was born Touko Laaksonen in 1920 in Kaarina,; then a rural area in the southwestern part of Finland.
		Tom of Finland's drawings counteract also the enduring stereotype of "the sad and unhappy homosexual": the men in them are clearly having a lot of fun and are proud of their sexual orientation.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201220 (856 words)

	Tom of Finland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tom of Finland (May 8, 1920 – November 7, 1991) (born Touko Laaksonen in Kaarina, Finland) was a fetish artist notable for his stylized homoerotic art and his influence on late twentieth century gay culture.
		Finland, however, soon became embroiled in the Winter War with the USSR, and then formally involved in World War II, and Touko was inducted into the Finnish Army.
		Tom also depicted a large number of fl men in his drawings, and there is no suggestion of any racial or political message in the context in which they appear.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tom_of_Finland (872 words)

	Finland Resource Center - tom of finland
		The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bounded by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
		Finland tom of finland gallery is a country of thousands of lakes and islands; 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands to be precise.
		There are two official languages in Finland: tom of finland kake gallery Finnish, spoken by 92% of the population, and Swedish, mother tongue for 5.5% of the population.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Banks_Cl_-_G-/Finland.html (2115 words)

	Finland
		The Republic of Finland (Finnish: Suomen tasavalta, Swedish: Republiken Finland) is a Nordic country in northeastern Europe, bordered by the Baltic Sea to the southwest, the Gulf of Finland to the south and the Gulf of Bothnia to the west.
		Finland is a country of thousands of lakes and islands; 187,888 lakes and 179,584 islands to be precise.
		Finland's policy of neutrality was moderated further from "active neutrality" to "military non-alignment," with an emphasis on maintaining a competent independent defence.
	creekin.net /n66-finland.html (3219 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen)
		Iconic artist Tom of Finland has created some of the most indelible (and erotic) images of twentieth-century gay life and has fueled the fantasies of generations of gay men.
		Born Touko Laaksonen in the village of Kaarina, Finland on May 8, 1920 to school-teacher parents, the man who was to become Tom of Finland evinced an interest in art as a child.
		Tom's protagonists deserve as much recognition for being well drawn as for their devilish grins, tight jeans, and worked out bodies, but these attributes are themselves significant, for they suggested a gay subculture that was defiantly rejecting the invisibility,
	www.glbtq.com /arts/tom_finland.html (1234 words)

	glbtq >> Special Features >> F. Valentine Hooven: Tom of Finland's Biographer, 1993
		One of the things Tom of Finland did was to inject humor and guilt-free characters into gay art.
		During WWII in Finland, he didn’t see an able bodied man for five and a half years who was not in uniform.
		The cultural impact of Tom of Finland is incredible.
	www.glbtq.com /sfeatures/interviewtomfinland.html (1348 words)

	zingmagazine \| zingmagazine5 \| reviews \| tom of finland
		Tom of Finland's drawings are pop sub-culture superstars, both stylish and kitschy.
		Tom's compositions ricochet around the directionality of the figures' glances, as well as their gonads: a man peers over the fence at a gang bang, a bartender watches two men approach a third.
		Reiterating Tom of Finland, the creator, Tom's fetish-filled world is further fetishized with his name: police badges read Tom's cops, a license plate TOM-59, T-shirts read Tom's men, a dude approaches Tom's bar.
	www.zingmagazine.com /zing5/reviews/finland.html (684 words)

	Tom of Finland
		There's still much to be said about Tom's impact on American and European gay culture, but this book provides a good starting point not only for Tom's fans who want to learn about the man behind the leather-clad images, but also for the uninitiated who've always wondered where the leather-cap-and-chaps look originated.
		Sadly, with Tom's death the flow of testosterone-packed pictures has stopped, but volumes like this show that there is still life in his legend.
		Tom of Finland was born Touko Laaksonen in 1920 in the village of Kaarina, Finland.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/t/tom_of_finland.htm (350 words)

	Tom of Flinland's Influence on Fashion
		Tom’s men had very narrow waists and broad shoulders during this period, making the tailoring of the clothes that he drew on his men all the more exaggerated.
		Iconic photographer/filmmaker Bruce Weber noted his debt to Tom in an essay that introduces Volume III of the Foundation’s Tom of Finland Retrospective, and Tom’s influence is clearly visible in the cutting-edge designs of contemporary fashionistas John Bartlett, Gucci’s Tom Ford, and the aforementioned Jean-Paul Gaultier.
		Tom felt that men were sexier when they were clothed, possessing a mystery lacking when they were nude: his realm was fantasy, and his men are manifestations of that sensibility.
	www.leslielohman.org /newsletter/No15/TOFInfluence.htm (1045 words)

	Tom Of Finland - Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tom Of Finland, is regarded as one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th Century who has investigated the sexual nature of modern man, and has been at the visual forefront of the gay liberation movement from its nascent beginnings in the late 1950s to the present.
		Strong, aggressive and controversial from their initial presentations, Tom Of Finland’s work (almost exclusively on paper) has spawned and influenced two generations of artists who have delved into and tackled the concepts of the erotic male.
		Works by Tom Of Finland have recently entered the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; these are the first two American institutions to acquire works by the artist.
	www.markmooregallery.com /index.php?mode=past&object_id=184 (210 words)

	Salon Health & Body \| The man who made gays macho (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tom of Finland's pornographic drawings of hunky, fuck-booted, bubble-butted beefcakes banging the booty in door-busting swells of charcoals, pencil and ink, watercolors and gouaches leave you -- depending on which team you bat for -- scratching your head, rolling your eyes or rubbing your crotch.
		Touko Laaksonen, aka "Tom," was born in Finland in 1920.
		Ramakers argues that Tom had a profound influence on gay culture because he was the first to connect words everyone assumed were oxymorons: Masculinity and homosexuality.
	archive.salon.com /health/sex/urge/2000/04/08/tom_finland (491 words)

	Gay Today: Entertainment
		In the wake of Tom of Finland, writes Valentine Hoven III in his introduction to a collection of Tom pictures published by Taschen in 1992, "Gays were much more likely to be hard-bodied sun-lovers in boots and leather, masculinity personified."
		Tom -- who was born Touko Laaksonen in 1920, on the south coast of Finland -- had a fantasy life both single-minded and boundless.
		Tom of Finland made catalysts of sexual awaking.
	gaytoday.badpuppy.com /garchive/entertain/032999en.htm (535 words)

	Index to Comic Art Collection: "Tom" to "Tom Brown's"
		Ringo & the Renegades / Tom of Finland.
		Tom of Finland exhibition, 1994-95 -- Los Angeles, CA : Tom of Finland Foundation, 1994?-- 63 p.
		Tom is a cat and Jerry is a mouse.
	www.lib.msu.edu /comics/rri/trri/tom.htm (4332 words)

	Gay Today: Review
		Dirty Pictures: Tom of Finland, Masculinity, and Homosexuality is the first book-length, academic study of Tom's art and its impact on gay subcultures.
		Though Tom gave us "a hypermasculine vision of the world"'; it would be wrong to see his work as "fascist" art that validates traditional patriarchy.
		In Tom's universe, cops and other authority figures are often shown as the passive objects of sex; and even the most muscular, overly-endowed Man usually meets his match.
	gaytoday.badpuppy.com /garchive/reviews/061200re.htm (710 words)

	Tom Ölander 1945-2002 - SFWA News
		Tom was one of the "founding fathers" of Finnish fandom.
		In 1986 Tom was the chairperson of the first Finncon, an event that over the years has grown to become one of the largest science fiction happenings in Europe with several thousand visitors.
		Tom Ölander will be sorely missed, but his legacy in the form of an active Finnish fandom will live on.
	www.sfwa.org /news/olander.htm (480 words)

	Master Collector ONLINE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tom of Finland -001 Rebel is the first in a series of collectible, officially licensed adult action figures based on the artwork of Touko Laaksonen known worldwide as "Tom of Finland".
		Tom of Finland's appeal was realized by Norman Franklin Lloyd, a professional and experienced toy sculptor and CEO of Adult Action Figures.
		Lloyd and Durk Dehner, President of the Tom of Finland Foundation, had extensive discussions regarding the 001 Rebel line-from expression of the face to the question of facial hair.
	www.mastercollector.com /articles/dolls/dollnews093003.shtml (491 words)

	Tom of Finland - Gay Art Forum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tom of Finland's real name is Touko - because he was born on 8 May 1920, on the south coast of Finland, and May in Finnish is "Toukokuu".
		Urho was the first in a long line of heroes to hold Tom's attention while he memorized every flex of their lean muscles, every humorous twist of their full lips.
		It was not until Stalin invaded Finland and Tom was drafted into a lieutenant's uniform that he found nirvana in the flouts of World War II.
	www.gaypaintings.com /forum/showthread.php?t=749 (570 words)

	Comic creator: Tom of Finland
		Touko Laaksonen, who used the artist name Tom of Finland, was raised by his parents, who were schoolteachers, in an atmosphere of art, literature and music.
		It was not until Stalin invaded Finland and Tom was drafted into a lieutenant's uniform that he came out as a homosexual.
		Once he could devote his efforts full-time to his erotic drawing, Tom combined photorealistic attention to detail with his wildest sexual fantasies to produce a body of work that, for sheer homoerotism, will probably never be surpassed.
	www.lambiek.net /artists/t/tom_of_finland.htm (389 words)

	TASCHEN Books: Sex - Reading Room - The Complete Tom of Finland (1)
		The Complete Tom of Finland began as a tiny seed in Benedikt Taschen's brain several years ago, and nourished by his unbounded imagination, grew over time into a brawny, brawling, muscular vision of a book that now threatens to become the most ambitious volume of explicit art ever published.
		But since Tom's men also have a tender side, The Complete Tom will be sensual as well as sexy, an elegant feast for the eyes and fingertips created from state of the art digital scans on high-quality paper, with essays by writers diverse as John Waters, Camille Paglia, Clive Barker and Vivienne Westwood.
		When the AIDS epidemic hit in 1984 the Tom of Finland Foundation was born as a non-profit archive to preserve not just Tom's work, but the work of all erotic artists, many of whom were facing death with no agency receptive to their own dirty drawings, paintings, sculpture and photographs.
	www.taschen.com /pages/en/excerpts/sex/show/1/147.htm (534 words)

	The Tom of Finland Erotic Art Weekend
		The Tom of Finland Foundation is the organization that originally got its start defending the artwork of Tom of Finland from the all too common rip-offs and thefts that were happening to it back in the 70's.
		For those of you who don't know, Tom of Finland was a real person and one of the seminal artists in the gay community from just after World War II through the 1990's.
		As Tom had established worldwide recognition as the master of homo-erotic art, the Foundation's original purpose was to preserve his vast catalog of work.
	www.madoc.us /tofwknd.shtml (1381 words)

	Sex Wrecks - Tom of Finland: An Appreciation
		Tom of Finland was born Touko Laaksonen in the Finnish village of Kaarina, but the young boy with a penchant for drawing and a fetish for tough men in big leather boots, thanks to a young adulthood of Nazi occupation, will always be known for his penname.
		Tom of Finland: The Comic Collection (Taschen) is a pocket-sized, five-volume set that collects the best of his panel art, which may have earned him a living and a reputation, but obviously was made almost exclusively to arouse the author.
		OK, Tom was just feeling out his audience at this early juncture in his career, so our boys come all over the blondes face and tits, though one helps the other pump her pussy by pushing his ass deep into that womanly slop.
	www.sexwrecks.com /2006/03/tom_of_finland.html (914 words)

	Tom of Finland \| Pullout \| The Queer Issue \| The Stranger, Seattle's Only Newspaper
		Tom's men have cocks as large as their well-developed forearms, and they practically pulsate right off the page--sometimes barely contained by leather chaps, or hot pants, or a tiny little posing pouch, but usually given free rein and heading right for the nearest available ass or mouth.
		So by the time I encountered Tom of Finland, I had some sense of a world that had no place for me. I saw Tom's men the way I saw the illustrations in books of fairy tales, or pornography, for that matter--remote, unlikely, based in fantasy.
		Tom's women (there are three examples, as far as I know) are improbably built, with pneumatic breasts that start up at their necks, and bodies that are clearly masculine, like Michelangelo's female sculptures, essentially men with a set of beefy tits attached approximately where tits belong.
	www.thestranger.com /seattle/Content?oid=7797 (761 words)

	Amazon.ca: Dirty Pictures: Books: Micha Ramakers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Art historian Micha Ramakers, who previously edited a monograph of Tom of Finland's drawings, argues persuasively for the influence of these hyper-masculine figures on gay culture since the mid-1950s, when the artist's renderings of fantasy men first began to appear in American beefcake magazines.
		Astutely delineating Tom of Finland's influences--from Renaissance religious art to the work of Paul Cadmus, Charles Demuth and Kenneth Anger--Ramakers places his subject in the context of both high and commercial art.
		His discussion of Tom of Finland's idealized view of masculinity and its relationship to state-sponsored art of the Third Reich is nuanced and illuminating.
	www.amazon.ca /Dirty-Pictures-Micha-Ramakers/dp/0312205260 (788 words)

	Tom of Finland Web Gallery \| Original Art by Tom of Finland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Large collection of drawings by the gay Finnish artist Tom of Finland, including the complete "Biker" and "Fence" Kake series.
		Tom of Finland is the most widely known Finnish graphic artist of the 20th
		Finland shaped the perception and self-perception of gays in the second half of the 20th century more than any other
	www.tom-of-finland.com (104 words)

	DareDevils Tom of Finland Explorer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen) review of his work in its social context.
		Tom of Finland Exposed by Tom's biographer, Owen Keehnen
		Tom of Finland Foundation This is the new address.
	www.geocities.com /nicintights/tom.html (342 words)

	TOM of FINLAND AT MoMA = ARTATLARGE.COM
		Tom of Finland, born Touko Laaksonen in a small village in Finland, first came to public attention in 1956, when Physique Pictorial magazine began to publish his drawings.
		Tom became well-known for his meticulously detailed pencil drawings, many of which are now in private collections.
		The Tom of Finland Foundation was cofounded in 1984 by Tom and Durk, for the purpose of preserving Tom’s work for future generations.
	www.artatlarge.com /pages/TOMETLGR/TOMMOMA.htm (370 words)

	WackyStacker.com Lil' Gothic Shop of Horror & Laughs! Collectible Tom Finland Action Figure Doll 001 Rebel
		Tom of Finland’s 001 Rebel is the first in the series of officially licensed Adult Action Figures based on the artwork by TOM OF FINLAND.
		Tom of Finland from “Adult action figures” are the highest quality poseable 13“ tall collectable adult Action figures available based on the art work of Tom of Finland.
		Clothing: The styles illustrated in the drawings of Tom of Finland come to life in the clothing created for the Adult Action Figures series and reflects the attention to details and materials, demanded by any collector.
	www.wackystacker.com /Tom.html (318 words)

	Tom of Finland
		Finland strove to satisfy his insatiable appetite for toothsome cock by frequenting with the loose boys of the city, he could not satiate the deep succulence he felt burning within.
		Finland's artistry is lackluster and devoid of all talent intrinsic to the heterosexual male.
		Finland’s Mephistophelian skill in the rendering of cock compounded by fractious cock is undeniably bovine and unequaled in the world today.
	impiousdigest.com /tom_of_finland.htm (702 words)

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