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Mon, 02/08/2016 - 2:31pm

Protagonist Pictures has announced "Tom of Finland," a new biopic about the famed artist whose erotic drawings of masculine sexual archetypes became a major part of the gay civil rights movement and are now major collector's items. Aleksi Bardy wrote the screenplay for the film which follows the life story of Touko Laaksonen who returned home to Helsinki a hero during WW2.

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