AN IMPORTANT PHOTOGRAPHIC EXHIBITION RECENTLY OPENED AT THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY IN LONDON ENTITLED GAY ICONS. GAY ICONS, WHICH RUNS TIL 18.OCTOBER, EXPLORES GAY SOCIAL AND CULTURAL HISTORY THROUGH THE UNIQUE PERSONAL INSIGHTS OF TEN HIGH PROFILE GAY FIGURES, WHO HAVE SELECTED THEIR HISTORICAL AND MODERN ICONS. THE CHOSEN ICONS, WHO MAY OR MAY NOT BE GAY THEMSELVES, HAVE ALL BEEN IMPORTANT TO EACH SELECTOR, HAVING INFLUENCED THEIR GAY SENSIBILITIES OR CONTRIBUTED TO MAKING THEM WHO THEY ARE TODAY. THEY INCLUDE ARTISTS FRANCIS BACON AND DAVID HOCKNEY; WRITERS DAPHNE DU MAURIER AND QUINTIN CRISP' COMPOSERS PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY AND BENJAMIN BRITTEN; MUSICIANS KD LANG, THE VILLAGE PEOPLE AND WILL YOUNG; ENTERTAINERS ELLEN DEGENERES, LILY SAVAGE AND KENNETH WILLIAMS; SPORTS STARS MARTINA NAVRATILOVA AND IAN ROBERTS AND POLITICAL ACTIVISTS HARVEY MILK AND ANGELA MASON. THEIR FASCINATING AND INSPIRATIONAL STORIES WILL BE ILLUSTRATED BY OVER 60 PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS INCLUDING WORKS BY ANDY WARHOL, SNOWDON AND CECIL BEATON TOGETHER WITH SPECIALLY COMMISSIONED PORTRAITS OF THE SELECTORS BY MARY MCCARTNEY. ALL ARE SET IN A STRIKING EXHIBITION DESIGN CONCEIVED BY RENOWNED THEATER DESIGNER ROBERT JONES. SANDY NAIRNE, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY SAYS: "GAY ICONS IS AN EXHIBITION IN WHICH INSPIRING STORIES, BOTH PRIVATE AND PUBLIC, ARE SHARED. THESE ARE STORIES OF BRAVE LIVES AND SIGNIFICANT ACHIEVEMENTS, TOLD THROUGH ICONIC PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGES CHOSEN BY SELECTORS WHO ARE THEMSELVES ICONS."
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