The gay filmmaker is the subject of a lawsuit filed in a Hawaii federal court alleging that he drugged, raped, and assaulted Michael Egan, then seventeen, in the late nineties. Such is the purported scene at the infamous pool parties hosted by Hollywood luminaries like Bryan Singer, 48-year-old director of X-Men, Superman Returns, and The Usual Suspects. It’s a label that mitigates the need for names or personalities or agency: “twinks” can be bussed into parties, thrown into pools, put into a tiny Speedo-or no tiny Speedo at all-and ornamentally placed around the water’s edge like living, breathing, giggling statuary. The term’s namesake is Twinkie, a junk food containing shiny packaging, a sweet taste, and zero nutritional value. At its most pejorative, the term describes a uniquely disposable kind of young gay man: Hairless, guileless, witless. In gay company, use of the word “twink” is typically paired with a rolled eye and a condescending tone.
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