[Siamese Princess]

faintly remember a scandalous story (and it may have been in Suetonius) about some extremely femme Roman young buck going through the form of marriage with his boy toy, but it wasn't valid and it was held up as an example of how low the morals of the upper class had sunk . . .

Didn't Nero "marry" one his boytoys -- I can't remember the if this is true or the details.

[steve-b]

Didn't Nero "marry" one his boytoys -- I can't remember the if this is true or the details.

That's one of Suetonius's stories (he also reports a joke making the rounds that the world would have been better off had Nero's father followed that course).