On behalf of the SF AIDS Foundation and LGBT I’d like to thank the Tom of Finland visitors for your kind and generous donations. With your generosity and support I have reached my goal of $5,000.00 and plus. 

A huge THANK YOU to everybody who came to my fundraiser – I enjoyed seeing you. Thank you for your generosity, time and good wishes. Special thanks goes to Miguel Angel Reyes for putting together this AIDS/LifeCycle event and S. R. Sharp and Durk Dehner of Tom of Finland Foundation for hosting!!!

Also, a big thank you to Terry Grand, Roger Warnix, Thomas Rogillio, Jim Patrone for supporting me on this amazing journey. It’s a pleasure to have met you and I am looking forward to more fun times. 

THANK YOU ALL – YOU ALL ROCK HARD !!!

Francesco Guglielmino

EVERYBODY MADE IT A PERFECT DAY FOR TOM

PHOTOS BY Benno Sebastian

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 I wanted to show Gays they can feel happy together. -TOM

Thank you for everyone who come to this great event at Faultline Bar
to celebrate Daddy’s Day for Tom of Finland, June 17th, 2012.

Thank you to Tom of Finland Foundation, Shawn Farnsworth, SOLD OUT Clothing and Instigator.

 
Alexsander Freitas

ON SALE NOW

Jeremy Lucido, Minoru & his model and S. R. Sharp @ launch party.

Pix of Launch Party 

Tom of Finland thanks The Barracks bar for busting ass at the beer bust benefit for us.
We thank our Volunteers and we thank everyone who came.

The Barracks, Cathedral City, California.

Carl and John, bar owners, receive TOM print as thanks.

ToFF Volunteers greeting.

The crowd that came to support TOM’s Foundation.

Congrats to Mr. Palm Springs Leather 2012, Mr. Tool Shed Leather 2012, Todd Peter.

American Libraries, Tue, 11/01/2011

Libraries Tap into Crowd Power

The notion that a group of people with varying opinions, when aggregated, can result in better information than a specific expert could come up with—aka “crowdsourcing”—has been around for some time. It’s one of the ideas on which the 10-year-old Wikipedia is based. So it seemed only natural when one of the most-consulted websites in the world recently posted a ubiquitous banner stating WIKIPEDIA LOVES LIBRARIES. What has resulted is nationwide “editathons”—editing marathons organized by active Wikipedia users to expand and add depth to the website’s content on a wide range of cultural and historical topics.

Charles Stewart imparting at ToFF wiki workshop.

At the Tom of Finland Foundation Library in Los Angeles on October 30, the “Queering Wikipedia Editathon” drew community activists, library school students, and members of the Foundation to create and update LGBT-related articles. Katie Herzog, director of the Molesworth Institute, helped put the event together and told AL that the meeting inspired dialogue about Gay history and generated an increased interest in activism for citizen-created content. “Everyone left feeling like it was the first of many to come,” she said.

By Sanhita SinhaRoy, Asscoiate Editor

COMPLETE ARTICLE

ToFF thanks Katie, Charles and Toni for making the wiki world – our world – a better place.

Thanks to our robust Volunteers and everyone who made the grounds look great.
And the lucky folks who took home something they had to have.

The Artists who made the day dazzle:
Jesus of Silverlake
Michael Kirwan
Jay Lawton
Orion
SOLD OUT Clothing

Every contribution makes your Foundation more meaningful.

On Saturday, October 22nd, BLUF LA  (Breeches Leather Uniform Fanclub) hosted a special BLUF social and benefit for Tom of Finland Foundation, TOM’s BLUF.

ToFF  is very appreciative of continued support and assistance in the furtherance of our goals and is a nonprofit
501(c)(3) Educational Archive so donations are deductible to the extent allowed by law. Donations.

West Hollywood Book Fair 2011

It was great being part of this this annual bibliophile fest! The new library is stunning, West Hollywood has every reason to be proud.

ToFF is very proud of our Volunteers who made our booth happen: Toni who put it all together; Marti; Thomas; Johnny; Rich; Gary; Carr; Anthony.

Thank you, Michael Kirwan for sharing your new book, Just So Horny.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone next year.

My Good Richard and Jonathan,

What can I say? A fantastic time was had by all at this year’s Folsom Street Fair. Everyone here at Tom of Finland Foundation owes you our thanks.

Over the course of 8 hours, we talked to more than 400 people, and received more than 300 new names for our monthly email newsletter concerning erotic art exhibitions and opportunities from around the world.

When we hear that local Gay/Lesbian centers find images of Michelangelo’s David (WITH fig leaf) too “obscene” to be displayed publicly, because the phrase “Erotic Art” is featured behind it, our blood runs cold. The new generation of Gay conservatives that believe the only Gay men who deserve their civil rights are those who have the same desires as Heterosexual women, have long placed the blame for the Plague years on the Leather community, and are currently  actively and aggressively trying to divorce ”sexuality” from homosexuality.

Because for your assistance, we are able help educate those alienated from their own history about who provided the positive, masculine role-models that gave us the strength to stand up, to act up, and to fight back – not only at Stonewall, but across the country and around the world.

Thank you for helping protect, preserve and promote the erotic arts, and for recognizing the value contained therein. We look forward to working with Brian on your  project, and again, you have our heartfelt thanks and appreciation.

Only the best,

ToFF Fundraising Coordinator

PHOTOS: JayPG