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Having met Tom in San Francisco, he helped stage an exhibition of his works in 1980. Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, also known for the graphically homoerotic nature of his work, was an early supporter. “No matter what the sexual orientation of the people who view his work, what they come away with is a sense of feeling good about life and feeling good about being humans being sexual in their nature,” he added.īorn in southwestern Finland in 1920, Tom was widely 7embraced by LGBT+ culture in the 1970s and 80s, although some critics dismissed him as a mere cartoonist or illustrator. “He was the forerunner of getting us prepared to be gay liberationists,” Dehner told the Thomson Reuters Foundation on Thursday of the artist whose real name was Touko Laaksonen. The curators of the show, Nathan Spoor and Jeff McMillan asked fellow artists to create risk taking erotic images that would display the endless perspectives of sexuality and intimacy. Tom’s images of burly, leather-clad moustachioed muscle men marked a “radical shift” from the then-prevailing idea of gay men as limp-wristed fops hiding in the shadows, said Durk Dehner, who set up the Tom of Finland Foundation with the artist in 1984. Risqu (Dirty Little Pictures) is a group art exhibit featuring a collection of erotic art by 40 contemporary artists. FILE PHOTO: The rainbow flag, commonly known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, is seen during the first Gay Pride parade in Skopje, North Macedonia June 29, 2019.