• Apartamento Magazine
  • issue 32, Autumn/Winter 2023-24

Tom of Finland’s Pleasure Park

Los Angeles: In the late ‘40s, Touko Valio Laaksonen, a young Finnish war veteran, spent his evenings drawing homoerotic scenes. At that time, mainstream society considered gay men morally and physically weak. Touko imagined himself and his comrades much differently. With all the propaganda skills he acquired from his advertising career, the master draftsman began a one-man…

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