Oct 31, 2011 
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.
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Oct 29, 2011
Oct 29, 2011 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.
Over 45 BLUF members and men in full Leather attended the benefit, which was held at TOM House, Tom’s historic home and headquarters of Tom of Finland Foundation (ToFF). All of the proceeds from the event went directly to ToFF in order to help with our efforts to document, preserve and promote Tom’s work and that of hundreds of other artists.
Besides a strong showing of locals, men from from Washington DC, Seattle, San Francisco and San Diego traveled to LA just for this event.
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.
Oct 27, 2011 Friday, November 11th
Leather Vendor Market
Tool Shed
7:00 PM – 2:00 AM
Saturday, November 12th
Mr. Palm Springs Leather Contest
Palm Springs Convention Center
6:00 PM – 10:00 PM
Sunday, November 13th
TOM Means Leather
The Barracks
2:00 PM – 8:00 PM
A $5 donation on Sunday (there is NO cover charge)
helps insure that this message survives!
All Title Holders are ToFF’s Special Guests.
Please let us know when you arrive.
TOM OF FINLAND (Finnish, 1920 – 1991), Untitled, 1987, Graphite on paper, ToFF #87.28, © 1987 Tom of Finland Foundation
Friday night, we will be selling books, magazines and memorabilia at the Vendor Fair.
Saturday night, prizes from the TOM collection will be donated to all the participants of the Contest.
On Sunday afternoon, we will be hosting our annual Barracks beer bust fundraiser.
Oct 25, 2011 Join us in downtown Los Angeles at the new performing arts high school at Grand and Cesar Chavez. The community resource fair starts at 3pm, the film screening is at 6:30pm. The event is free and open to the public!
A Film by Glenne McElhinney
The film shows postwar Los Angeles to be a city of startling contrasts. In this tale of two cities, there is one, a city with a substantial, vibrant gay community, and the other, a city obsessed with rendering that community invisible, kept in the closet or locked in its jails.
Oct 24, 2011
Prism Comics will be exhibiting for the first time at the Long Beach Comic Con
and is extending the invitation to you to be a SPECIAL GUEST CREATOR at the show.
We have free, one hour signing slots every hour on the hour as follows:
Saturday, October 29 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM
Sunday, October 30 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM
Write me with your choice of morning or afternoon and we’ll schedule you.
GUEST CREATORS get 50% of sales during the signing, the way you would with most comics shops.
Prism is also looking for VOLUNTEERS.
Volunteering provides a good opportunity to promote your books as well.
Please spread the word if you have friends who might like to volunteer.
Space is limited and on a first-come, first served basis,
so please let me know as soon as possible.
Ted Abenheim
Events Chairperson, Prism Comics
ted@prismcomics.org
Prism Comics is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization
that promotes LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender)
creators, characters, themes and readers in the comic book field.
Oct 21, 2011 
FLUX Bar ART ShowSaturday, October 22nd
8:00pm – 2:00am
Flux Gay Bar
17817 Lakewood Boulevard
Bellflower, California
Oct 21, 2011 In the same pioneering spirit as many others who have packed their bags and headed west, Photographer Bruce Bellas, or Bruce of Los Angeles as he came to be known, arrived in California in 1946 and immediately began challenging the norms of acceptable society. With post-war conservatism growing, Bruce of Los Angeles photographed Muscle Beach’s most beautiful male bodies and published an extensive body of homoerotic work during a time when institutionalized homophobia was the norm. His pin-up images of the male physique pressed the boundaries between art and obscenity. Having influenced contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber, and Herb Ritts, Bruce of Los Angeles is regarded as a “creative force in the establishment of the modern homosexual identity.”
This exhibition will showcase a collection of “The Male Figure” the physique magazine Bruce of Los Angeles published himself and original prints of the his extensive body of work as well as exhibit the work of contemporary artists who’ve found inspiration in the classic style and boundary breaking approach that mark the contribution Bruce of Los Angeles made to art as we know it today.
Opening Reception: Friday, October 28 · 7:00pm – 11:00pm
CONTRIBUTING CONTEMPORARY WORK BY:
Austin Young
Lindsay Scoggins
David Tamargo
PRVTDNCR
Bodega Vendetta
Leo Herrera
Daniel Trese
John Parot
Jesse Finley Reed
Margie Schnibbe
Ariel Dunitz Johnson
Orlando Tirado
Johnny Coleman
John Arsenault
Miguel Angel Reyes
Ian O’Phelan
Adrian Gilliland
Jasten King
Juanita More!
Kyle Sweet
Ellen Schinderman
Pop tART Gallery Los Angeles
Oct 20, 2011 
7:00 Thursday evening, October 20th in the
Hollywood Gay & Lesbian Center Gallery.
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