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Name Leather Week - Tom of Finland Documentary - Roxie Theater
Producer Folsom Street
Time Monday 18th of September 2023, 6:00 pm–7:30 pm (PDT)
Location Roxie Theater, San Francisco, 3117 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
This event is 18+ only.

Leather Week - Tom of Finland Documentary - Roxie Theater

Tom of Finland is a 2017 biographical drama film directed by Dome Karukoski and written by Aleksi Bardy. It stars Pekka Strang as Touko Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, a Finnish homoerotic artist.

Description

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 to be a place of rampant homophobia where men are pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specializing 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.

The film is followed by a cocktail reception with representatives from the Tom of Finland Foundation!

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