Ready for a Tom of Finland emoji? Because it’s ready for you.

The work of Tom of Finland has been enjoying quite the resurgence lately.

Two months ago, DJ Hell released a video for his track “I Want U” featuring Tom of Finland artwork. (Don’t check it out at work unless your boss is down with public sex and light bondage.)

And now, celebrating the fact that same-sex marriage will be legalized on March 1st, the country is published their own set of national emojis — which includes the one above. (Finland is clearly not America.)

Related: A Sensuous First Look At ‘Tom Of Finland: The Movie’

You can download the emoji off the official Finland website, which describe it in glowing terms:

Boy, have times changed since Tom of Finland (Touko Laaksonen, 1920–1991) first published his homoerotic drawings in the 1950s. The artist made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the advancement of human rights, advocating for tolerance, respect and freedom.

This is happening on the heels of an upcoming film about Tom of Finland.

Related: Sexy, Iconic Tom Of Finland Images Are Now Postage Stamps

Directed by Dome Karukoski, the biopic prods deeply into the life of Touko Laaksonen, who you better know as, righto, Tom of Finland.

You can check out the trailer below:

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Get intimate with a Brazilian model; new music from Depeche Mode; Prince comes to Spotify

“Ronnie, Talk To Russia.” “All the Critics Love U in New York.” “Jughead.”

Starting today, all of Prince’s most beloved hits will be available for streaming on Spotify and other services, so you can enjoy every legendary album — from The Gold Experience to Emancipation — whenever and wherever you want.

You may know British electronic outfit Depeche Mode from such unforgettable classics as “Pimpf” and “Hole to Feed.”

Well, brace yourself: A video for their new single “Where’s the Revolution” has officially sprung.

Bonus: it features Dave Gahan in a magnificent fake beard.

Judy Garland will always be remembered as the unimpeachable vocalist behind such ear-worms as “It’s a Great Day for the Irish” and “On the Atchison, Topeka, and the Santa Fe.”

Well, now a brand new tell-all —order here — claims she was molested by The Munchkins in 1939’s underrated The Wizard of Oz, perhaps best remembered as the prequel to Disney’s 1985 blockbuster, Return to Oz.

If the name RuPaul rings bells, it’s probably because she was prominently featured in Tom Rubnitz’s classic 2007 short Pickle Surprise.

Well, it’s just been announced that two spinoffs of RuPaul’s Drag Race are in the works.

“Haus of Edwards” stars the generally unassailable Alyssa Edwards, and “Detox’s Life Rehab” will star the one-and-only Detox, who hopefully needs no introduction.

Read about it in something called Variety.

After years of struggle, Lily Tomlin finally rose to public consciousness in season three of Damages in 2010.

Get to know her work as she appears in brand new episodes of Netflix’s Grace & Frankie, co-starring buzzworthy up-and-comer Jane Fonda.

By now, everybody has heard of male model Alexsandro Duarte, but that doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get acquainted with this sensual new photoshoot and interview from Dhedral. 

Corrections or feedback? Don’t hesitate to post them in the comments section below. 

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Tear Gas Canister Thrown at Gay Club Night in Croatia Causes Stampede, Panic, Injuries

An unknown perpetrator threw a tear gas canister during a gay party at the Super Super nightclub in the Croatian capital of Zagreb early Sunday morning.

Two people were injured as clubgoers broke windows and stampeded to the exits at around 3:30 am.

The AP reports:

“Croatian gay rights groups are describing the attack as an “act of hate violence.” The Zagreb Pride group says in a statement that Croatia’s conservative government has turned a blind eye to a recent surge in right-wing sentiment in the European Union’s newest member state.”

One clubgoer published photos of her injuries to Twitter:

Evo, ovo je 2017. godina u Hrvatskoj gdje se u klubu na LGBT veceri bacaju suzavci! pic.twitter.com/6emypkkeq7

— ana (@ana_esplanada) February 12, 2017

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NHL's Bruins Go Rainbow to Fight Homophobia

The Boston team hosted a Hockey Is For Everyone event in support of the LGBT community.

www.advocate.com/sports/2017/2/12/nhls-bruins-go-rainbow-fight-homophobia

Man wonders if he should tell his lying ex-lover’s wife that he slept with him

A U.K. man is grappling with whether to tell his ex-lover’s wife that he’s been sleeping with her husband, or if he should simply walk away, so he’s seeking help from advice guru Coleen Nolan.

“I’m a gay man in my mid-thirties and, for a few months, I was sleeping with a straight married guy, who’s a few years older and has a child with his wife,” the man’s letter begins.

He goes on to say that he “really fancied” the guy and found the whole thing very “exciting” in the beginning.

Related: Sexually frustrated straight guy considers going gay, but is he up to the task?

“But then it became stressful having to sneak around,” he says, “and I actually started to feel very bad for his wife.”

His guilt only increased when he went over to the guys house for a booty call while his wife and child were out of town.

“I saw all these happy family photos and felt so bad that I was sleeping with her husband in her bed and she knew nothing about it,” he says. “I had to ask myself what kind of guy I was involved with.”

On top of that, he says, “I used to hear him on the phone lying to her about where he was when he’d just been having sex with me.”

“I’m not the first guy he’s cheated on his wife with,” he continues, “and I’m sure I won’t be the last.”

Now he wonders: Should he tell the wife so she can escape “this sham of a marriage and find happiness with someone else” or is should he simply walk away?

Related: Straight Guys Sound Off On How Much They’d Have To Be Paid To Hook Up With Another Dude

“I’m torn between wanting to see him get his comeuppance or just walking away and leaving them to it,” he says.

Coleen’s advice: Leave it alone.

“There’s a small chance she knows he lives a double life and chooses to turn a blind eye to it,” she writes in her response. “I’ve known people in that situation.”

On top of that, she says, “if she doesn’t know anything, yes you’d get some kind of revenge on this guy by telling his wife–if revenge is what you’re after–but you’d also shatter her life and it wouldn’t make you feel any better.”

At the end of the day, Coleen believes the husband is “living in denial” and “taking huge risks.” Sooner or later, that’s going to catch up with him.

“I’m pretty sure it’ll come out at some point and his wife will, sadly, have to deal with it,” she says.

Related: Straight Guy Seeks Advice After He Decides To Date A Man

Ultimately, Coleen writes, “you shouldn’t have got involved with a married man, but you have to move on and learn from it, and not put yourself in that position again. Focus on finding a single man – there are plenty of them out there.”

What do you think? Should this guy confront his ex-lover’s wife and potentially ruin her life, or should he let it go and move on? Share your thoughts in the comments below…

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Gay Author of OUT ‘s Milo Yiannopoulos Profile Says Liberal Backlash Drove Him to Become a Conservative

Chadwick Moore, the author of the much-maligned OUT magazine profile of Milo Yiannopoulos, says the backlash that he received over the article drove him to become a Trump supporter, and he came out as a conservative yesterday in an article in the New York Post.

Moore says that after the article came out he was called an Islamophobe and received death threats. Acquaintances at gay bars in Brooklyn gave him the cold shoulder, his best friend dumped him, and a stranger he met called him a Nazi for expressing his support for strengthening our borders.

RELATED: Out Magazine Profiled Gay White Supremacist Milo Yiannopoulos and Twitter Issued a Take Down

Writes Moore, who says he voted for Hillary Clinton:

And I began to realize that maybe my opinions just didn’t fit in with the liberal status quo, which seems to mean that you must absolutely hate Trump, his supporters and everything they believe. If you dare not to protest or boycott Trump, you are a traitor.

But Moore has found the benefits of becoming a conservative, like learning to enjoy Ann Coulter:

“…after Trump’s inauguration, [my Republican farmer father and I] chatted for two hours, bonding over the ridiculousness of lefties. But we also got serious: He told me that he is proud of my writing, and I opened up about my personal life in a way I never had before to him.

I’ve made some new friends and also lost some who refuse to speak to me. I’ve come around on Republican pundit Ann Coulter, who I now think is smart and funny and not a totally hateful, self-righteous bigot. A year ago, this would have been unfathomable to me.

I even went on a date this past week with a good-looking Republican construction worker, someone I previously would not have given a shot.

And I guess the date went well:

Thanks! He was lovely. I’m still sore. t.co/KyYpIlJ9q0

— Chadwick Moore (@Chadwick_Moore) February 12, 2017

Image: Twitter.

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Black Cat Shows Protest Makes Progress

The man who organized a protest 50 years ago against police brutality was thanked publicly by police.

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