‘Tom of Finland: The Official Life and Work of a Gay Hero’ By F. Valentine Hooven III c.2020, Cernunnos $50.00/295 pages Sometimes, you can’t worry about other people’s thoughts.
You can listen to them but you don’t have to hear them because there are days when making yourself happy supersedes any outside opinion, when you need to pay closer attention to you.
As in the new biography “Tom of Finland” by F. Valentine Hooven III, sometimes what makes you joyful today can become a calling.
Born in the mid-spring of 1920 in Kaarina, Finland, young Touko Laaksonen was raised in a community of lumberjacks and farmers.