A strikingly beautiful young man was forcefully castrated and made to live in an emperor’s palace as his “queen” draped in veils. The story is so dark, fantastical, and profoundly queer it seems ...

It’s that most wonderful time of the year. No, not the pre-holiday giddiness that strikes when a Mariah Carey jingle blasts through our radio speakers or the mouth-watering anticipation that comes ...

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Succession fans will need a while to recover from the jaw-dropping Season 3 finale. For the past 3 seasons, the Roy family have made it pretty clear they trust absolutely nobody, but none of them, let ...

Nero, who was enthroned in Rome in 54 A.D., at the age of sixteen, and went on to rule for nearly a decade and a half, developed a reputation for tyranny, murderous cruelty, and decadence that has ...