Recent comments on Queerty, a tabloidy gay gossip website, about the Bryan Singer-Michael Egan scandal are probably somewhat indicative of under-40 gay community sentiment. So rather than listen to me, a lifelong straight guy who finds Egan’s stories about having been repeatedly and forcibly violated a bit questionable, consider the responses to today’s (4.18) Queerty story about Singer and director Roland Emmerich having thrown huge “twink” parties (along with a photo of Singer and a young blond kid). These guys obviously have a degree of insight and perspective that straights can’t have.

And before reading some of the comments (or all of them if you click on the page), consider the odd-sounding headline (odd in the sense that the implied offense and unsympathetic judgment doesn’t seem to fit a gay-friendly publication) and imagine the laughter if a scandal sheet had published a story in the 1960s, ’70s or ’80s about Hugh Hefner‘s wild Playboy mansion orgies and all the pot, booze, ‘ludes and cocaine that were consumed and how Hef’s obsession for young nubile women is no secret.

Comment #1 [writer: “Kamarlie“]: “This is one of those cases, it seems, where the charges might be both factually true, and yet the lawsuit is without merit. Is there a good chance [Egan is] telling the truth, and did attend parties of Singer’s? A good chance. How about that he partook of alcohol and drugs while at these parties? A good chance. And had sex with multiple men at these parties? Also a good chance.

“However, his own argument undercuts his case. You can’t simultaneously argue that [Singer] was ‘famous for his coke parties’ and then [claim, after] you went there and partook of the alcohol and drugs and had sex with men, that you were assaulted multiple times on multiple occasions? Really? If you were flown there to be assaulted multiple times, WHY ON EARTH would you keep GOING BACK? And you were 17. The age of consent in Hawaii is 16.

“Now you’re filing a civil lawsuit (since the statute of limitations on criminal charges is long since past) for money. Gee. I wonder what your motivation is?”

Comment #2 [writer: “Red Carpet“]: “I don’t want to be a rape apologist, but this is sorely lacking in evidence. Singer obviously has a reputation in debauchery but a rapist that does not make. All we have to go on is the word of an admitted addict 15 years after the fact with timing suspiciously close to a big movie release? I’m sorry but it’s just not enough to go on. Now if this causes other more provable cases to come forward I’d say throw the book at the bastard. Where there is smoke there is often fire after all. But right now as it stands, there is nothing to go on.”

Comment #3 [writer: Ryan26pdx“]: “I met Singer at a few parties in Seattle about eight years ago, when I was starting my first year in college. Perhaps he was more arrogant back in 1999, but the guy I met seemed more comfortable when people weren’t trying to get him to talk about his movies and the celebrities he knew. He was a lot less full of himself than many of the older ‘Microsoft Millionaires’ who were throwing parties to attract younger guys. Egan is most likely just one of many who were caught up in a party lifestyle and ended up making stupid choices. I certainly made my share of them, but at this point I would hardly sue any of the guys who took advantage of me. I was never raped nor did I ever have to force myself have sex with anyone, but even at 18-19-20 I knew that the booze and lovely — police free — houses to party at always had the potential to not be entirely “free.”

Comment #4 [writer: DK]: “Those of us who went to college in Los Angeles and/or have lived in WeHo for a time all know (or have heard from close sources) about these these ‘white twinks only’ bang-a-teen parties that have been going on in Hollywood at least since the 1980s. The names associated with them over the years are not secret: Hollywood directors, Oscar-winning actors associated with said directors, Scientologist box-office stars, child performers living and dead, vampire franchise pinups, A&F models turned TV stars, famous gay screenwriters.

“Everybody knows who they are, hence the constant rumor mill about the sexuality of those allegedly involved who are not out.

“Everyone deserves the presumption of innocence. Extortion based on questionable but not criminal does happen and it does permanently ruin reputations (Jackson, Michaal). It is a lead from ‘poor judgment’ to ‘predator’ to ‘pedophile.’ But would I be surprised? Nope. Let’s let it play out because there’s a ton of people around here who know where the twinks are buried.”

Here’s a recently posted TMZ story, by the way, that asserts, by way of unnamed sources in Singer’s camp, that Singer “has proof that he was not in Hawaii during the period he allegedly committed a sexual assault.”