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Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), known as Tom of Finland, is one of the most internationally acclaimed Finnish artists today....

Tom of Finland (birth name Touko Laaksonen) was born on May 8, 1920 into a middle-class family in a southwestern Finland area Kaarina near Turku, where he spent.

Tom of Finland is the artist name of Finnish Touko Laaksonen (1920, Kaarina – 1991, Helsinki).

Touko Laaksonen (1920-1991), known as Tom of Finland, is one of the most internationally acclaimed Finnish artists today.

Born in the mid-spring of 1920 in Kaarina, Finland, young Touko Laaksonen was raised in a community of lumberjacks and farmers.

Touko Laaksonen, born in 1920, was the illustrator of homoerotic drawings Tom of Finland, praised abroad but who stayed undercover in his homeland.

Tom of Finland

Finnish artist (1920–1991)

For the biographical film, see Tom of Finland (film).

Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), known by the pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinizedhomoeroticart, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture.

He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.^[2] Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated sex traits, wearing tight or partially removed clothing.

Early life

Laaksonen was born on 8 May 1920 and raised by a middle-class family in Kaarina, a town in southwestern Finland, near the city of Turku.^[3] Both of his parents Suoma and Edwin Laaksonen were schoolteachers at the grammar school that served Kaarina.

The family lived in the school building's attached living quarters.^[4]

He went to school in Turku