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#PrideIssue - Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 5, 144 pages fashion, art and illustrations! Out 17.07.2020 – featuring in conversation with Pabllo Vittar, Adrien Weiss, Ella Boucht, Davi, Phoebe Bridgers, Mateo Velasquez, Lil Botox. Featuring Crystal from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1, Tom of Finland, Darren Skene, Pablo Solano, Damian Garcia, Sammy Finn Cullis, Jacopo Marchio, Ernst van Hoek and more. On the cover, Chris Flora photographed by Alberto Lanz.

#PrideIssue - Welcome to our new digital issue: IN CONVERSATION WITH – Part 5, 144 pages fashion, art and illustrations! Out 17.07.2020 – featuring in conversation with Pabllo Vittar, Adrien Weiss, Ella Boucht, Davi, Phoebe Bridgers, Mateo Velasquez, Lil Botox. Featuring Crystal from RuPaul’s Drag Race UK Season 1, Tom of Finland, Darren Skene, Pablo Solano, Damian Garcia, Sammy Finn Cullis, Jacopo Marchio, Ernst van Hoek and more. On the cover, Chris Flora photographed by Alberto Lanz.

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ars through an international underground of fans, despite<br />

laws against the distribution of such explicit material.<br />

Travelling extensively to Europe, Laaksonen himself<br />

sold and gifted his drawings to men he met in the local gay<br />

scene, thus further proliferating his work while establishing<br />

an underground distribution network and the base of<br />

admirers.<br />

Exploring and dismantling the representations of maleness<br />

and gender-assigned attributes in mainstream media,<br />

he turned these reference pages towards the exact<br />

opposite of their origin. Depicting oversized phalluses<br />

and muscles, his drawings challenged the existing symbolic<br />

order of heterosexuality, at the same time creating a<br />

fearless portrait of homosexual desires.<br />

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