They called it filth. It became a revolution.
Tom of Finland
Drama|
6/10
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Pekka Strang
Lauri Tilkanen
Jessica Grabowsky
Taisto Oksanen
Seumas F. Sargent
Jakob Oftebro
Niklas Hogner
Chris Myland
Alf Myreen
Fabian Puregger
Roope Karisto
Emanuel Claesson
Henri Keränen
Siim Maaten
Leif Edlund
Werner Daehn
Christian Sandström
Martin Bahne
Kari Hietalahti
Ksenia Lelesh
Ida Koski
Anders Sanzén
Sanne Broström
Niko Wirtanen
Jari Forsman
Norbert Braun
Erwin Bruhn
Martin Bergman
Thomas Olausson
Paavo Pyykkönen
Sten Sture Olander
Pekka Immonen
Meri Nenonen
Jari Tolkki
Þorsteinn Bachmann
Frank Michael Jork
David Nolden
C.T. Brauner
Jimmy Shaw
Matthew Way
Haymon Maria Buttinger
Margit Trennedal
Amelia Hoy
Manfred Böll
Liliana Lindner
Harriet Pasternak
Eric Rusch
Fred Baube
Celina Callahan
Erich Silva
Julian Herring
Lawrence Dolkart
Leena Asp
Mark B. Odom
Rich Lyons
Sophia Albow
Steven Stewart
