'Tom of Fland' gay imag set for bedroom and bath

Contents:

• TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’
• 'UNASHAMEDLY GAY': TOM OF FLAND'S BULGG BEEFKE DRAWGS UNVEILED LONDON
• THERE'S A GAY PORNO STASHED IN YOUR WARDROBE: THE HISTORY BEHD PRI 2020'S BT COLLAB
• TOM OF FLAND EXHIB CELEBRAT NORDIC COUNTRY'S GAY IN
• 'TOM OF FLAND' GAY IMAG SET FOR BEDROOM AND BATH
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

TOM OF FLAND’S HYPERMASCULE GAY IMAG ‘THE PLEASURE OF PLAY’

In his heroic homoerotic drawgs – starrg hyper-mascule hunks, clad uniforms or leather gear, all bulgg mcl and members – he fearlsly nonted a system that nied eedom, legaly, and basic rights to the gay muny. Among the photographs are portras of iends and partners – cludg those Tom of Fland and Robert Mapplethorpe took of each other – that were nfed to his home stud and darkroom for years, wh much of the rrponnce between the artist and his subjects stroyed due to the illegaly of homosexualy at the time. Tom of Fland Permanent Collectn(Image cred: Marko MacPherson)‘Beg aware of what society had nied homosexuals, Tom went about creatg the archetype of mascule homosexuals who participate eely together sex – a cree om Nature herself, says Durk Dehner, print and -founr of the Tom of Fland Foundatn, created 1984.

Tom of Fland, perhaps the most inic creator of erotic gay art, unrstood his role as a liberator. From a distance, then, he was keepg pace wh Amerin gay liberatn and cultural shifts.

When he arrived California 1977, was no surprise that he was immediately embraced by a muny who viewed him as paragon of gay pri. The stereotype of a domant and submissive partner assumed of a both a male/female and gay relatnships was not one he subscribed to. Oppose: another of the garn’s seatg areas hangs a banner by Ts Webster, memoratg an inic drawg by Tom of Fland om a seri pleted 1963(Image cred: Jack Pierson)The hoe is the headquarters of the Tom of Fland Foundatn, an anisatn voted to prervg the legacy of the most fluential homoerotic artist of the 20th century.

'UNASHAMEDLY GAY': TOM OF FLAND'S BULGG BEEFKE DRAWGS UNVEILED LONDON

The exhibn’s troductory text scribed Tom of Fland as ‘the creator of some of the most inic and readily regnisable imag of post-war homomasculy’ (almost certaly markg that word’s official but the mm).

Acrdg to Sharp, the are ‘the first homoerotic postage stamps the world’.

Tled ‘Sealed wh a Secret: Corrponnce of Tom of Fland’, the show m the artist’s trove of letters and photographs to chart his life and Tom’s work first appeared the 1950s, fied the domant image of gay men as sissi, fairi and pansiTom’s fluence extends not only to other erotic artists but also to the velopment of gay culture across the send half of the 20th century. His drawgs have spired untls viewers not jt to h the gym or don a biker p but also to image an alternative versn of homosexualy.

THERE'S A GAY PORNO STASHED IN YOUR WARDROBE: THE HISTORY BEHD PRI 2020'S BT COLLAB

As Sharp puts , ‘when Tom’s work first appeared the 1950s, fied the domant image of gay men as sissi, fairi and pansi’. Tom’s drawgs offered a ‘homo-mascule’ ial that spoke not only to the sir but also to the personal aspiratns of his viewg dience. The gay man who created art that helped shape queer inty and sire.

Tom of Fland is the psdonym of artist Too Laaksonen – an erotic illtrator om of Fland’s work as an artist was stmental shapg 20th-century gay culture – his impact is still beg felt today.

TOM OF FLAND EXHIB CELEBRAT NORDIC COUNTRY'S GAY IN

Laaksonen viewed his homosexualy as a non-issue, and wanted to normalise for everyone else his muny at a time when beg gay was lerally a crime. “In those days, a gay man was ma to feel nothg but shame about his feelgs and his sexualy. I wanted my drawgs to unteract that, to show gay men beg happy and posive about who they were…” Tom explaed, before he died 1991 om an emphysema-duced stroke.

'TOM OF FLAND' GAY IMAG SET FOR BEDROOM AND BATH

”The men drawn by Tom of Fland were pretty much the first sex-posive morn art figur pictg gay men – strappg beefk, wh bulgg mcl, big boots, a visor hat and leather, or a mixture of civilian cloth uniforms – everythg about them is big and unapologetilly 1973, Laaksonen had given up his job advertisg so that he uld vote himself to his art landmark 1962 Supreme Court se MANual Enterpris, Inc.

At the vatn of Durk Dehner, a gay bsman, film director and publisher.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’

” This particular ic documents “the nvergence of two Gay muni an era still grapplg wh the crimalizatn of Homosexual love.

The masterful renrgs of virile men engrossed acts of homoerotic sire n be approached along several terpretative l—art historil, social, technil—but each of them pots to the revolutnary nature of his project. A master draftsman, whose passn for both his medium and his subject matter enabled him to bee a powerful cultural force, Tom gave form to an imagative universe that turn helped fuel real-world liberatn movements and enabled gay men to accs their strength new ways.

Art & Dign|Tom of Fland’s Hypermascule Gay Imag ‘The Pleasure of Play’ ADVERTISEMENTArt of Fland Foundatn, Permanent CollectnJuly 23, 2015For several s, begng the 1950s, Too Laaksonen, a rporate advertisg signer based Helski, moonlighted as a pornographic draftsman named Tom of Fland.

The actn uld get rough, but the drawg was always smooth — fe-led, subtly shad — and the fac of the participants almost variably work, wily circulated prted formats, has been exhibed sporadilly New York galleri, but never the quanty, or wh the historil perspective, afford by the current two-se Artists Space show, spl between a survey of almost 200 drawgs at 38 Greene Street and a display of supplementary material (mostly llag) at 55 Walker Laaksonen, who died 1991, was forthright about his reasons for makg his work: In addn to givg exprsn to his personal fantasi, he wanted to produce an image of gay men that unteracted the atmosphere of opprsn and the stereotyp of effemacy he had grown up wh.

And the work looks tertgly very notn that there uld, or should, be a gay male ial feels old.