"Gay Icons" is the National Portrait Gallery's first photo exhibition to celebrate the contribution of gay people and their icons to social and cultural history. A panel of 10 notable LGBT figures, which included Sir Elton John, Sir Ian McKellen and Billie Jean King, were asked to select 6 icons, who may or may not be gay, who had been important to the selector, having influenced their queer sensibilities.

The icons include artists Francis Bacon and David Hockney; writers Daphne du Maurier and Quentin Crisp; composers Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Benjamin Britten; musicians k.d. lang and the Village People; entertainers Ellen DeGeneres and Lily Savage; sports stars Martina Navratilova and Ian Roberts and political activists Harvey Milk and Angela Mason.

"Gay Icons" runs through October 18 at the National Portrait Gallery's Wolfson Gallery in London.

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