The Little Book Of Tom Blue Collar 9783836588652

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Tom of Finland's Hard Working Men Cowboys, loggers, roughnecks, and roustabouts, all Tom-style As a boy, Tom’s first crush was a strapping young farmhand who worked the fields around his family home. Finland is a land of tough physical men, catching fish in the icy sea; cutting logs in the endless forests; threshing oats, rye, and barley on the farms. Tom, a more sensitive boy, admired these rough men and their distinctive clothing, designed for protection and utility. He later said, “When I was young, leather was worn by people who worked outside because it was warm. All the men who wore leather, they were the type of men which I adored .” When he began to draw he celebrated these early idols, improving their wardrobes with tight jeans, faded T-shirts, and thigh-high beak-toed Lappish boots . It was a young logger in this gear who appeared on the spring 1957 cover of Physique Pictorial , introducing Tom to the world. In the decades to follow Tom added truckers, repairmen, construction workers, circus roustabouts, and the American cowboy to his roster of working-class heroes . Though just sexual fantasies for him, his portrayal of blue-collar lovers helped working class gays accept

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