A man has described his humiliation after gym staff complained about his Tom of Finland bag. (Stock photograph via Elements Envato)
A gay man was left “humiliated” after taking a Tom of Finland bag to a gym in Adelaide, South Australia, only to receive complaints from pearl-clutching gym-goers.
Jeff Trahair explained to the
Star Observer, a decades-old LGBT+ news outlet, how he fashioned a bag made out of a shower curtain covered in the buff, gritty graphite prints by the Finnish illustrator.
But while the illustrations themselves were “very PG”, Trahair said, ARC Campbelltown managers deemed the bag “inappropriate” for children and spurred what he called a “vigilante witch hunt” earlier this month.