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“Tom of Finland” hits the big screen.
Coming in February 2017, Dome Karukoski biopic recounts the life of artist Touko Laaksonen, whose drawings of hypersexualized macho men have been a hallmark of gay male culture for decades.
It turns out Laaksonen’s life was just as fascinating as his artwork: Born to Finnish schoolteachers in 1920, he was drafted during WWII and was made to serve alongside Nazi officers, who inspired his fascination with men in uniform.
In the years that followed, artists, filmmakers and advertisers took their cue from him in sexualizing the male form.
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