Happy 100th Birthday Tom of Finland

  As it’s the centennial of the birth of Touko Valio Laaksonen aka TOM OF FINLAND, we are expecting there to be a lot of celebrations throughout the coming year. He was a Finnish artist known for his stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and for his influence on late twentieth century gay culture. He has been called the “most influential … Continue reading

Happy 100th Birthday Tom of Finland

Happy Happy  100th Birthday to Tom of Finland  Tom, whose real name was Touko Valio Laaksonen was a Finnish artist who made a huge influence on late 20th Century Gay Culture. Born into a middle class family in a small town in the south west of Finland. Both his parents were school teachers. At the … Continue reading

Happy 101st Birthday Tom of Finland

Happy 101st Birthday Tom of Finland.  Thanks to the TOF Foundation who have been dedicated to protecting, preserving, and promoting the erotic arts for three and a half decades, his work is still as popular as it ever was. He was the queer artist who not only pushed the boundaries of homoerotic art and censorship … Continue reading

Happy 39th Birthday Patsy

Happy Birthday Patsy Stone …. we don’t care that those nasty newspapers are saying that you are 70 years old today, as we know you will ALWAYS be 39 to us!

Happy 43rd Birthday to the groundbreaking ‘The Joy Of Gay Sex ‘

  It may seem very odd to some of us that 43 years ago Dr Charles Silverstein felt the need to compile. The Joy Of Gay Sex.  But back in the 1970’s sex education was both sparse and very straight. After all in the UK, homosexuality wasn’t legalised until 1969 ,  so no one had  … Continue reading

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