Tahir Karmali has been thinking about Saint Sebastian recently. You might know the story. If not, the short version is that Sebastian was an early Christian saint and ...

How did a third-century Catholic saint become a contemporary gay icon referenced on everything from the covers of men’s magazines to art and films and an adopted pseudonym by Oscar Wilde?

It is a pen-and-ink concept drawing of St Sebastian being martyred ... it may have been the template for a da Vinci painting of the Saint, known to have been completed but lost to time.

MIDDLETOWN — Devotees of Saint Sebastian, known as Nuri, honored the saint, God and their loved ones this weekend in an annual festival that's more than a century old. The Nuri led chants of "E ...