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The Portland Queer Film Festival kicks off on Friday, Sept. 29 with a 7:30 screening of TOM OF FINLAND, the critically-acclaimed portrait of the modern gay pioneer and hugely influential artist Touko Laaksonen. The screening is a benefit for Cascade AIDS Project and is co-presented by Wells Fargo and The H Dwayne Davis Group at The Agency, Inc There is a hosted party immediately after the screening with food by Crush Bar and drinks by New Deal Distillery. TOM OF FINLAND Known to the world as Tom of Finland, the proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski’s stirring biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his art were finally embraced amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Tom’s story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay liberation movement for which his leather-clad studs served as a defiant emblem.