Instead, he preferred to party, belonging to a group of pleasure seekers whom Seneca described as "men who turn night into day". However, he was appointed to a number of official positions: he was ...

In the French Quarter home he shared with his late partner since 1965, Alvin Payne is reminiscing about his time in the Krewe of Petronius, the city’s oldest running gay Mardi Gras krewe: the balls, ...

“Where have you gone, Petronius? “A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.” First, my apologies to Simon and Garfunkel and the late great New York Yankee baseball champion, Joe DiMaggio. Petronius was a ...

The Krewe of Petronius, the oldest active gay Carnival krewe, announced its 2024 royalty Saturday night at French Quarter gay bar Oz. Holly Perry will be the krewe’s 62nd king, and Sarah Manowitz will ...

The tableau-style balls of New Orleans gay Carnival krewes feature some of the season’s most elaborate costumes. Assembling one can take months of planning and construction, especially if there’s an ...

"The Uncertain Hour" depicts the dramatic suicide of Roman statesman and author Titus Petronius, committed during a dinner party at his home. Drawing on a three-paragraph anecdote in Tacitus' "Annals ...

“The Death of Petronius,” a comment on decadence, is a new mural now standing in The Sahm Seaview Room at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in La Jolla. The mural is from a 2001 photographic ...