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## Matt Vella


Apr 15, 2014 6:25 PM UTC

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Itella Posti

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[Matt Vella](https://time.com/author/matt-vella/)


## Matt Vella


Apr 15, 2014 6:25 PM UTC

The Finnish postal service revealed 33 new stamp designs this week, and tucked among the winter scenes and autumnal gardens is this: a man’s bare behind, lifted from a design drawn by one of the country’s most prominent illustrators, [Touko Laaksonen](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%5Fof%5FFinland), known as “Tom of Finland.”

The stamps, which will [debut](http://www.posti.fi/english/current/2014/20140413%5Fstamps.html) in September, feature three of Laaksonen’s drawings bearing his trademark leather-bound muscle men. The images embody the “confident and proud homoeroticism” of Laaksonen’s work, [according](http://www.posti.fi/english/current/2014/20140413%5Fstamps.html) to Itella Posti. “The sheet portrays a sensual life force and being proud of oneself,” Timo Berry, a graphic designer who helped select the art, said in a statement. “There is never too much of that in this northern country.”

The U.S. Postal Service recently said that it will release a [new stamp](http://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2014/pr14%5F025.htm) to honor Harvey Milk, the gay rights activist assassinated in San Francisco in the late-1970s. The stamp, which has yet to be revealed, will be dedicated at the White House in late-May. That will make Milk the first openly gay figure on an American stamp.

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