Tom of Finland is the Norman Rockwell of gay sex. His artwork—drawings worshipping the male physique in unabashedly exaggerated masculine and sexual form—has retained cultural gay prominence decades ...

At first glance, the impossibly ripped leather-clad bodies and sexually graphic encounters of Tom of Finland art are exactly what they appear to be — the stuff of many gay men’s fantasies. But as ...

LOS ANGELES -- The late Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, produced thousands of illustrations featuring men wearing tight or partially removed clothing. His work has ...

Tom of Finland, the Finnish artist famous for his homoerotic illustrations of hypermasculine men, died in 1991. But his legacy lives on — through his art, which adorns queer establishments around the ...

A biographical film about an artist and cult figure in gay culture, Dome Karukoski’s “Tom of Finland” makes up for what it lacks in the grace of its storytelling with its uniqueness and the ...

You’ve likely seen Tom of Finland’s work or other work inspired by it. Big, rippling-muscled men, with perfectly mustached faces and full, sometimes overflowing jeans, typically engaged in some sort ...

When it comes to sex and social media, the line between appropriate and potentially offensive has been murky, inconsistent and, more and more often, seemingly discriminatory. We’re in uncharted waters ...

DURK DEHNER has been president of the Tom of Finland Foundation, headquartered in Echo Park, for almost 40 years–ever since he met and interacted with Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, aka Tom of ...

Tom of Finland, a moniker of Touko Laaksonen, was a Finnish illustrator best known for his distinctively stylized homoerotic drawings. An influential aesthetic force in late 20th-century gay culture, ...

LOS ANGELES -- The late Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, produced thousands of illustrations featuring men wearing tight or partially removed clothing. His work has ...