Gay Icons Honoured In UK
In July, London’s National Portrait Gallery will host an exhibition of 60 portraits called Gay Icons. The included works have been handpicked by some people who quite frankly could have featured in the exhibition itself, like singer Elton John, actor Ian McKellen, novelist Alan Hollinghurst and retired tennis player Billie Jean King.
While most lists of gay icons tend to become popularity contests, this exhibition set out to explore gay social and cultural history by asking ten high profile gay figures to choose idols who have influenced or inspired them.
The final selection offers an extremely diverse list of inspiring figures from all walks of life – some well known, others completely unknown – and includes artists Francis Bacon and David Hockney, civil rights campaigner Harvey Milk, writers Quentin Crisp, Joe Orton, Virginia Woolf, Daphne Du Maurier, Patricia Highsmith and Walt Whitman, composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky, musicians k.d. lang, Will Young and Village People, entertainers Ellen DeGeneres, Kenneth Williams and Lily Savage, as well as Nelson Mandela and Diana, Princess of Wales.
Gay Icons will be exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London from July 2 to October 18.
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