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eNews #278
News from TOM's Foundation
6th September 2022
Event Highlights
It's the 27th Tom of Finland Art & Culture Festival — Tom Unites. This is the first time the Festival incorporates Second Home’s London outpost in Spitalfields.
Returning to Second Home Hollywood where art installations, performances, and presentations will occur in salons and courtyards framed by lush landscape.
Events & Exhibitions
The Museum of Sex Objects is delighted to present a talk by Dr Gary Everett. Gary is the UK producer and curator of the Tom of Finland Foundation Los Angeles.
11th September
Los Angeles
We will be outside at TOM House. Room for 15 artists. In-person ONLY.
Music will be played while the model is posing. Coordinator: Miguel Angel Reyes
Folsom Street Fair’s largest Saturday night sponsored dance event. Epic production, visuals, and performances. International fashion and celebrity photographer Mike Ruiz continues his Leathermen photography series.
Through 6th November 
London
The exhibition traces how menswear has been fashioned and refashioned over the centuries, and how designers, tailors and artists have constructed and performed masculinity.
News & Announcements
"Some manifest as the ones that document us, and empower us to be our total selves by creating the visual and symbolic iconography of our very selves that serves to enhance who we are."
Established by Central Saint Martins graduate Nat Kanokvaleewong, Leisure Projects looks to “produce fun and casual clothing for modern men”, and the brand has tapped the work of historic LGBTQ+ artist Tom of Finland for their newest “The Sailor” collection.
Skira released Tom of Finland: An Imaginary Sketchbook. Co-editors Pay Matthis Karstens and Juerg Juden worked closely with Tom of Finland Foundation to pull highlights from a more extensive collection of Tom’s sketches.
Leisure Projects, in collaboration with Tom of Finland Foundation, presents The Sailor, a collection of garments inspired by those of the trailblazing Tom of Finland, an iconic artist who for decades helped shape the identity of LGBTQ+ people.
The Queer Finnish artist Tom of Finland died in 1991. But his iconic homoerotic drawings are as popular now as in the 1950s and ’60s — if not more so.
"The name Tom of Finland originated from when he first sent his drawings to magazines in America. But with a Finnish name hard to read by American audiences, the editor of the magazine suggested the moniker Tom of Finland."
The clothing company, known for its designer jeans, has released a capsule collection emblazoned with the work and signature of the famed Finnish artist, whose homoerotic drawings have influenced Queer culture for decades.
Putting sexuality on the canvas isn’t just for ‘degenerates and deviants’, and Tom of Finland Foundation’s Emerging Artist Competition aims to dispel the myth for good.
“Life-changing encounters occur for some people and it will never be the same after that. We were welcomed by Durk Dehner in leather from head to toe, after 11p, just because we (Dazed) came from Korea. Under the dawn of LA, we discussed the value of erotic art.”
"We have put together the Liverpool ECHO Rainbow List. Although we have written about members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have shaken things up in the city before, this is the first time we have opened submissions to the general public."
Continuing the legacy of the legendary artist, Tom of Finland Foundation is putting the spotlight on the next generation of Queer erotic artists with the 11th instalment of its Emerging Artist Competition
The book brings together a cross-section of freehand drawings and sketches of the characters (just sketched or defined in more detail) that populate the world of Tom of Finland.
Salar was even imprisoned by state artists who tried to sexual bully him, but he is still promoting LGBTQIA even though they showed him as a threat to the state on the news.
Some of Mogutin’s works were exhibited in the double exhibition AllTogether, curated by Tom of Finland Foundation and presented by Diesel, at Studio Cannaregio in Venice and at The Community Center in Paris
Stuart Sandford and Jose Tonoco curated two nights of films4fags as part of the Queer Biennial 2022. Check out the gallery of photographs taken by Stuart Sandford.
FOUNDATION UPDATE
TAILPIECE
Pete Finland needs our community’s help.

For decades Pete has been an integral member of the Leather community; since 1999, he has been an ambassador for Tom of Finland Foundation. He has given us countless hours of pleasure as an adult film star. He became “Barber Pete,” providing hundreds of men worldwide with a sexy hot new look.

Now is the time for our community to step up and help Pete beat this medical emergency. Pete was diagnosed with Stage 3 colorectal cancer and is commencing thirteen weeks of five-day-a-week chemo/radiation therapy.
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