Monsieur Mosse

Monsieur Mosse, actually Raimo Urmas Jääskeläinen ( born May 26, 1932 in the Helsinki rural community; † August 22, 1992 in Helsinki) was a Finnish make-up artist. He is known especially as he in 1971 as the first and only one for a long time person of public life in Finland known to his homosexuality.

Life

Jääskeläinen began his career in the 1950s as a make-up artist at the private television channel MTV. In 1964 he opened his own beauty salon in Helsinki, which soon became one of the social centers of the Finnish glitterati. Jääskeläinen surrounded himself preferred with the stars us star of film and pop scene, tried himself occasionally as an actor, and was engaged in a Finnish standards rather exalted lifestyle ( fast cars, expensive homes, long fur coats ) so that the tabloid media often reported on him. In May 1971, shortly after homosexuality was decriminalized in Finland, he ventured in an interview with the magazine Hymy a public coming out and so caused a scandal. The taboo in Finnish society homosexuality was first widely discussed by his liberal denominations in the following numbers; Jääskeläinen outed against the magazine also more Finnish celebrities, but the names were blacked out consistently, so much room for speculation remained.

Shortly after these revelations was his salon bankrupt. Jääskeläinen then lived in Spain and the USA, and returned again in 1982 to Finland to pojat his memoirs Voi kun tietäisitte! (Eng. "Oh guys, if you only knew !") to publish. In 1992, he died in Helsinki on the following heart surgery.