I’m watching peewees big adventure right now .. and want to revive this thread
I really like to explore mysteries and conspiracy theories and life of Paul Reubens is very interesting in that way. I read many articles, interviews, twitter/fb posts, datalounge posts, etc and undrestood several things.
a) Paul Reubens, most probably, is ordinary gay man, who was hounded because he was successful chidren's entertainer and he wanted to take part in serious projects like Blow (2002).
b) Possibly, 1991 arrest wasn't a setup. It could be pure fluke. He was arrested with 3 more men and, if I call spade a spade, he offered a bribe to sheriff. Some DL posters claimed Reubens cruised undercover cop. But I can be mistaken. May be Hollywood bosses knew about his orientation before this arrest.
c) Most likely, 2002 pornography case was a setup and witch hunt. Yes, he actually has photos of teens (16-19y/o), but there were materials of 1930s-1960s. Then nobody thought about age of models and the term "child pornography" didn't exist. And the district attorney looked at Reubens's collection and computer and found no grounds for bringing any felony charges against him, while the city attorney, Rocky Delgadillo, formally charged Reubens on the last day allowed by statute. There is very cool article by Village Voice called Persecuting Pee-wee. And Reubens had 70 000 pieces collection and there was only 170 pieces of "controversial content".
Also on Datalounge several posters who knew Paul Reubens by themselves or second-hand wrote that he is hoarder of vintage kitschy stuff and vintage erotica/porn. Reubens bought this magazines and photos on auctions by many boxes. And some of these boxes he unpacked (these are really old posts, 2007-2016 years). He can't even knew every piece of his collection. And on DL there are many stories from people who hooked up with him. There is nothing extraordinary.
Once I found little thread in Twitter where one person claimed they exactly knew that Paul Reubens is a pedophile but they can't talk about it publicly. Honestly, this information makes more question than answers. And I know that so many people in our world think gay means pedophile.