Finnish Post thrilled with homoerotic Stamps – Badische Zeitung

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09th September 2014 08:51 clock

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Stamps with half-naked muscular men: A series featuring the gay icon Tom of Finland become the worldwide blockbuster. The Finnish Post’s happy.

A stamp series featuring the gay icon Tom of Finland become the worldwide blockbuster: How the Finnish Post announced the official launch on Monday, were submitted in advance orders from 178 countries. The stamps half-naked muscular men

The graphic with the civil name Touku are seeing their homoerotic staging had made known to died in 1991 at the age of 81 years, artist Tom of Finland internationally. Laaksonen drew his explicit works at a time, as homosexuality in the West was still considered taboo. Among gay men, he acquired so the more recognition.

So much media interest was never the Finnish postal service

The Finnish Post spoke of the biggest worldwide media interest in their stamp series. The aim, “our zeitgeist to print corresponding Stamps” had been achieved obvious.

The graphic artist Timo Berry, who had designed the badge value, expressed his delight at the huge demand. The Finnish radio station YLE he said: “It’s great that these images that had to be sold earlier under the counter, can now be unconcerned stuck on envelopes and stamps.” <-! RSPEAK_STOP ->

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