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GAY INS AT THE NATNAL PORTRA GALLERY

Ten high-profile gay people were asked to select their hero, straight or gay for a new exhibn * gay icons national portrait gallery *

Gay Ins. Natnal Portra Gallery, LondonThere are straight women, gay men, gay women who lived as straight men and Christian mountaeers, fds Eva Wiseman.

Gay ins: Navratilova, Versace, Tatchell, and er, Graham Taylor. Gay celebri pick hero, wh scientists, signers and football managers next to porn stars at Natnal Portra Gallery. Portra Gallery gay ins: 'A huge range of people - Will Young, Rostropovic, Althea Gibson'.

Pim Baxter puty director of the Natnal Portra Gallery tells Jon Dennis about the Gay Ins exhibn.

NATNAL PORTRA GALLERY SNUBS KYLIE MOGUE AND PICKS NELSON MANLA FOR GAY INS LIST

<p>Gay ins list chosen for Natnal Portra Gallery snubs Kylie Mogue for Nelson Manla and other 'spiratnal' choic</p> * gay icons national portrait gallery *

Natnal Portra Gallery snubs Kylie Mogue and picks Nelson Manla for gay ins list.

Gay ins list chosen for Natnal Portra Gallery snubs Kylie Mogue for Nelson Manla and other 'spiratnal' choic. The first portra exhibn to celebrate the ntributn of gay people and gay ins to history and culture. An important photography exhibn, Gay Ins, at the Natnal Portra Gallery (2 July – 18 October 2009) will celebrate the ntributn of gay people – and the signifince of the gay in – to history and culture.

Not only do this exhibn clu many well-known ins, who may or may not be gay themselv, also reveals some surpris and will enurage a wi dience to thk about faiar fac new ways. The Gay Ins shown the exhibn will clu those people, livg or ad, whatever their sexual orientatn or terts, who the ten dividual selectors regard as spiratnal, or as a personal in. Gay Ins brgs together portras of those people who are regard as pecially signifint to each of the selectors, alongsi those of the selectors themselv, all proment gay figur ntemporary culture and society.

GAY INS @ NATNAL PORTRA GALLERY

I was trigued when I received a prs release om the Natnal Portra Gallery London, announcg an important photographic exhibn entled, ‘Gay Ins’ startg this month. * gay icons national portrait gallery *

The ncept quickly evolved to clu vatns to ten gay people – each distguished different fields – to act as selectors.

This also seemed appropriate bee wh this same perd homosexualy was gradually accepted and ma legimate Bra. Sandy Nairne, Director of the Natnal Portra Gallery, London, says: “Gay Ins is an exhibn which spirg stori – both private and public – are shared.

“… is a signifint wrer by any standard, but she serv honourg as a lbian and gay in on the strength of one novel alone, The Price of Salt, a wonrfully plex and upbeat reprentatn of lbian love. Havg also crossed over to mastream rol like mobster Lucky Luciano  The Cotton Club, Dallandro is generally nsired to be the most famo male sex symbol of Amerin unrground films of the 20th century, as well as a sex symbol of gay subculture.

REVIEW: NATNAL PORTRA GALLERY SALUT GAY INS

The large and opulent halls of the Natnal Portra Gallery play host to an tertg exhibn on the personal histori and spiratns of fluential gay and lbian figur this summer. * gay icons national portrait gallery *

Gay Ins explor gay social and cultural history through the unique personal sights of ten high profile gay figur, who have selected their historil and morn ins. The chosen ins, who may or may not be gay themselv, have all been important to each selector, havg fluenced their gay sensibili or ntributed to makg them who they are today. This exhibn brgs together ten selectors, chaired by Sandi Toksvig, each of whom is a proment gay figure ntemporary culture and society.

GAY INS: NAVRATILOVA, VERSACE, TATCHELL, AND ER, GRAHAM TAYLOR

<p>Gay celebri pick hero, wh scientists, signers and football managers next to porn stars at Natnal Portra Gallery</p> * gay icons national portrait gallery *

Each selector was asked to name six people, who may or may not be gay, whom they personally regard as spiratnal, or an in for them.

IN CELEBRATN OF "GAY INS"

Take a sneak peek at some of the 60 "Gay Ins" celebrated om now through October 18 at the Natnal Portra Gallery London, cludg k.d. lang, Virgia Woolf, and Quent Crisp. * gay icons national portrait gallery *

“Gay Ins, ” on the Natnal Portra Gallery webse [Onle] Ced 18/06/2022. “He [Ronald Firbank] is celebrated as a master of high mp, but he was also a radil technician and radil homosexualiser of the novel.

PORTRA GALLERY GAY INS: 'A HUGE RANGE OF PEOPLE - WILL YOUNG, ROSTROPOVIC, ALTHEA GIBSON'

Pim Baxter puty director of the Natnal Portra Gallery tells Jon Dennis about the Gay Ins exhibn * gay icons national portrait gallery *

Mogue, Garland, Mnelli and Streisand may be adored by gay men across the world but they will not be part of a major summer exhibn announced yterday by the Natnal Portra Gallery lled, simply, Gay Ins. Instead, a 10-strong panel, cludg Elton John and Billie Jean Kg, has st s beyond an abily to look and sound fabulo and gone for a more nsired list of wrer and broadster Sandi Toksvig, who chaired the panel, said she thought visors to the show would be "terribly surprised" when they saw the full list of 60 gay ins. "She nced that she was reprentg a gay muny that did not exist, the same way a straight muny did not exist.

It might make people feel better about themselv and might make other people rethk their perceptns of gay life. "The are people who gay people thought were really spiratnal?

THE TOP GAY INS (STRAIGHT UP!)

The novelist Alan Hollghurst has chosen two wildly different men: Andy Warhol's sex symbol Joe Dallandro, who starred as a htler Pl Morrissey's trilogy Flh, Trash, and Heat; and the Victorian poet Gerard Manley Hopks, an tense and pafully reprsed Catholic who wrote some of the century's most homoerotic poems. Nelson Manla was chosen by Kg on the grounds that he is everybody's in, gay or straight.

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