Tom of Finland movie and social

You are invited to join Leather friends and those in the leather community to watch Tom of Finland, please come dressed in your formal leathers - let's turn some heads! The movie starts at 3.30pm, seats are allocated, if you have a small group attending, consider pre-booking so you sit together. Movie trailer https://youtu.be/gxPRRzZkpus --------------------------- We will be gathering at the Oxford Hotel afterwards for a drink or two and invite you and friends to come along. Yours in Leather, Ms Sydney Leather 2015/16 Mr Sydney Leather 2015/16 About the movie: Touko Laaksonen 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 post-war Helsinki rampant with homophobic persecution, and gay men around him are being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art: homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. But it is only when an American publisher sees them and invites Tuoko over to the West Coast that his life really takes a turn. Finally being able to walk free and proud in Los Angeles, Tuoko dives head first into the sexual revolution, becoming an icon and a rallying point. His work -- made famous by his signature 'Tom of Finland' -- became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of the worldwide gay revolution.