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For more than 50 years until his ath 1991, the artist better known as ‘Tom of Fland’ drew gay men a way that was radil: his mcular young hunks were happy, playful and unashamedly sexual, whout beg like this:- Why do gay men love Judy Garland?
- The troubled legacy of an inic rtHis work, which he liked to ll ‘dirty drawgs’, first found an dience on the gay unrground the 1950s and 1960s, but sce then has edged ever closer to mastream acceptance. Equally, Tom of Fland’s ifitn of a certa type of gay man – mcular and avowedly mascule – hasn’t necsarily enared him to all rners of the LGBTQ muny. His fluential drawgs of men leather and biker outfs helped to spire the popular Gay Clone look that Freddie Mercury and Frankie Go to Hollywood adopted and brought to the mastream, but also ma his work appear exclnary to other queer though I had to hi my own sir – or maybe bee of – I started drawg fantasi of ee and happy gay men – Tom LaaksonenIn the 2011 book Tom of Fland: Life and Work of a Gay Hero, Dehner reflected that members of an activist group lled Queer Natn “protted [Too] not long after his ath, llg him a ‘sell out’ – only drawg what they saw as ‘straights’.
” And 2020, Tom of Fland’s stylised hunks uld look like the embodiment of the toxic ‘masc4masc’ culture that pervas gay datg apps, shamg queer men who prent a more femme of Fland’s drawgs were herently subversive – bee they dared to prent imagery that mastream society wasn’t ready to acceptHowever, ’s important not to separate Tom of Fland’s drawgs om the historil ntext which he created them.
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“At the time when I beme aware of my sexual orientatn, before World War Two, all gay activy was forbidn by law most untri, ” Laaksonen wr the preface to his 1988 book, Retrospective I. Laaksonen, born 1920 and raised by schoolteacher parents a small town southwtern Fland, says the first gay men he enuntered “felt ashamed and guilty, like [they were] belongg to a lower human tegory” as a rult of the prejudice they faced.
He also acknowledg that his creativy was a reactn to this shame, sayg: “Even though I had to hi my own sir – or maybe bee of – I started drawg fantasi of ee and happy gay men. ”Creatg a new stereotypeWhat’s more, Laaksonen veloped his distctive athetic – a homoerotic fantasy world populated by gay men who epomised physil fns and male sirabily – as a rrective rponse to the particular, rctive way which gay men were portrayed at the time.