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

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