Gavin Bond's photos of influential gay figures

Gavin Bond's photos of influential gay figures – in pictures

A selection of portraits from Out magazine's 17th annual portfolio of the most compelling people of the year

guardian.co.uk, Sunday 11 December 2011 01.04 GMT

New Yorker journalist Ariel Levy and Entertainment Weekly editor Jess Cagle in a picture based on a Cecil Beaton story for Vogue. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Activist Chaz Bono as Richard Avedon's Marlon Brando. Photograph: Gavin Bond

The Booker prize-winning novelist Alan Hollinghurst as Yousuf Karsh's Ernest Hemingway. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Andrej Pejic, the Australian model who takes part in both male and female fashions shows, as Richard Avedon's Nastassja Kinski. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Marios Schwab and Jonathan Saunders – two of the UK fashion world's brightest stars – pictured as Irving Penn's Frederick Kielser and Willem de Kooning. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Retired international rugby star Gareth Thomas – one of the few out professional athletes – as Mapplethorpe's 'Larry'. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Gareth Pugh, the iconoclastic fashion designer, as Cecil Beaton's Charles James. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Nicola Formichetti, Mugler's creative director and the man behind Lady Gaga's meat dress, as John Deacon's Francis Bacon. Photograph: Gavin Bond

Adam Lambert, the pop icon and gay role model, whose second album is due out next year, as Andy Warhol's Elvis Presley. Photograph: Gavin Bond