Trump's Buddy Anti Gay Activist Who is Also a Troll Who Loves Gay Porn

Corey DeAngelis

  

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Trump-supported activist put on leave from employer after gay porn reports

Matt Lavietes

 

Corey DeAngelis (Gage Skidmore)

Corey DeAngelis during the 2022 Hazlitt Summit in Orlando, Fla.

A school-privatization activist and frequent Fox News guest whose work has been praised by former President Donald Trump was placed on leave by his conservative nonprofit employer after reports that he had appeared in gay pornography videos surfaced.

Corey DeAngelis has been a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, since 2021 (DeVos’ website says she is the former chair of the organization, and the organization’s site does not mention her as being currently involved). Asked about DeAngelis and the adult film reports, Rebekah Bydlak, a spokesperson for the organization, said, “We have placed the employee on leave as we look into this matter further.” Bydlak declined to comment further.

A person who resembles DeAngelis and performs under the name “Seth Rose” appears in at least three gay adult films on the pornography site GayHoopla dating to 2014. In the videos, “Seth Rose” does not have sexual contact with other performers; rather, he appears in scenes masturbating solo or alongside other men. The existence of the videos was first reported last week by the blog Str8 Up Gay Porn, which shares gay porn and articles about sex.

DeAngelis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

DeAngelis, who has more than 160,000 followers on X, received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas in 2018 and has worked for several conservative nonprofit groups. In more recent years, he has become a fierce advocate of “school choice,” which subsidizes private schools with public dollars. He has also been a critic of discussing LGBTQ topics in schools. In 2021, Forbes cited DeAngelis on its education category’s 30 under 30 list.

DeAngelis has also regularly appeared as a guest on Fox News in recent years, with some of his appearances criticizing policies that support LGBTQ students.

In a Fox News segment last year, DeAngelis spoke out against the Los Angeles Unified School District after it held a “Week of Action” to honor famous LGBTQ people, including former NFL player Carl Nassib.

“It’s just so strange how the far left is so obsessed with inserting sexual topics into elementary schools,” DeAngelis said in the segment. “Why not just focus on the basics, get the math, reading and arithmetic correct?”

In an appearance on Fox News in May, DeAngelis criticized and linked the student-led protests against the Israel-Hamas war to how LGBTQ issues are talked about in public schools.

“They’re not focusing on the basics — math, reading and writing,” he said. “They’re focusing more on the ‘LGBTs’ than the ‘ABCs.’”

A representative for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

This year, DeAngelis released a book titled “The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids From the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.” A description of the book says it “exposes the hypocritical elites who are content to hold other people’s children captive to poorly run government schools.” Trump praised the book on his social media site, Truth Social, in May.

“Corey DeAngelis is a FIGHTER for Parental Rights,” Trump wrote. “His new book, The Parent Revolution, is a great guide to help Moms and Dads take back control of their children’s education from the RADICAL MARXISTS ruining our schools.”

Trump’s endorsement of the book is pinned to the top of DeAngelis’ Instagram account and quoted at the top of his X account.

In July, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance shared one of DeAngelis’ X posts that included a video of Vance vowing to fight for schoolchildren to “get a good education and not an indoctrination.”

A spokesperson for the Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Last week, DeAngelis shared an X post from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., that mocked support for trans girls playing on school sports teams that correspond with their gender identities and the Drag Story Hour children’s reading program.

“Schools should be places for education — not indoctrination,” the post said.

DeAngelis has not posted on his social media accounts since Thursday. His landing page at the American Federation for Children appears to have been taken down.

 

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Trump endorsed anti-LGBTQ+ author put on leave from school choice group after his ‘gay porn past’ is discovered

Gustaf Kilander

 

Anti-LGBT+ author and activist Corey DeAngelis has been placed on leave from the conservative group the American Federation for Children following allegations that he appeared in gay adult films.

The organization removed a page outlining his work with the group. The federation said that DeAngelis had been placed on leave while the claim that he appeared in videos as “Seth Rose” on the adult film site GayHoopla was investigated, according to LGBTQ Nation. The videos seem to have been posted around 2014, the outlet noted.

DeAngelis is the author behind the book The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, which has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. He has argued that taxes should be used for private for-profit schools – something repeatedly pushed by Christian social conservatives – institutions that can choose to reject a student for any reason and avoid government oversight.

The author recently appeared on Fox News where he said public schools are more focused on the “LGBTs” than the “ABCs.”

“It’s just propaganda and a way for the left to control the minds of other people’s children,” he told Fox.

On September 16, DeAngelis shared a post on X by Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson who wrote that “Under the Biden-Harris Administration, schools are focusing more on spreading woke ideologies instead of teaching our students. Schools should be places for education – not indoctrination.”

Corey DeAngelis appears on Fox Business. He’s been put on leave from the American Federation for Children while they investigate claims he appeared in adult films (Screenshot / YouTube / Fox Business)

Johnson shared an image outlining the “radical left’s 2024 weekly lesson plan” with subjects like critical race theory, drag queen story hour, mandatory pronoun recognition, boys taking part in girls’ sports, and a “pro-Hamas protest hour.”

“It’s time to pass the Educational Choice for Children Act. School choice defeats the woke mind virus,” DeAngelis wrote as he reposted Johnson’s tweet.

DeAngelis is also a senior fellow at a number of think tanks, such as the Reason Foundation and the Cato Institute. He also serves as the executive director of the Educational Freedom Institute, The Advocate noted.

The author appeared on Fox News in July last year, slamming the California superintendent of public instruction for opposing the policy of a school district to share the identity of transgender students with their parents, calling it “really disgusting.”

“We have some people here today in 2023 fighting to keep sexual secrets from parents when it comes to their own children. It’s absolutely ridiculous,” he added.

He lauded the Chino Valley Unified School District board for keeping families informed.

“Freedom can ring even in Communist California, a deep blue state,” he said.

The president and CEO of media monitoring organization GLAAD, Sarah Kate Ellis, told The Advocate that “Corey DeAngelis is yet another public figure whose anti-LGBTQ extremism already makes him deeply unqualified to be an expert in improving safety and education at school.”

“The latest news on DeAngelis further reveals his baseless, hypocritical attempt to profiteer and score political points. DeAngelis is a sideshow charlatan,” Ellis added. “The real threat is from the people who’ve propped him up and their Project 2025 blueprint for a government takeover that would demolish the Department of Education and refuse to recognize rising LGBTQ visibility and acceptance across society.”

The Independent has contacted DeAngelis for comment. An automatic email response stated that he’s “out on paternity leave.”