{"id":32651,"date":"2024-09-25T04:02:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:02:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32651"},"modified":"2024-09-25T04:03:40","modified_gmt":"2024-09-25T09:03:40","slug":"trump-supported-activist-put-on-leave-from-employer-after-gay-porn-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=32651","title":{"rendered":"Trump-supported activist put on leave from employer after gay porn reports"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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

Corey DeAngelis has been a senior fellow at the American Federation for Children<\/a>, a conservative education nonprofit group founded by former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, since 2021 (DeVos\u2019 website says she is the former chair of the organization, and the organization\u2019s 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, \u201cWe have placed the employee on leave as we look into this matter further.\u201d Bydlak declined to comment further. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A person who resembles DeAngelis and performs under the name \u201cSeth Rose\u201d appears in at least three gay adult films on the pornography site GayHoopla dating to 2014. In the videos, \u201cSeth Rose\u201d 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeAngelis did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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 \u201cschool choice,\u201d which subsidizes private schools with public dollars. He has also been a critic of discussing LGBTQ topics in schools. In 2021, Forbes cited\u2002<\/a>DeAngelis on its education category\u2019s 30 under 30 list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Fox News segment last year, DeAngelis spoke out<\/a> against the Los Angeles Unified School District after it held a \u201cWeek of Action\u201d to honor famous LGBTQ people, including former NFL player Carl Nassib.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just so strange how the far left is so obsessed with inserting sexual topics into elementary schools,\u201d DeAngelis said in the segment. \u201cWhy not just focus on the basics, get the math, reading and arithmetic correct?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an appearance on Fox News<\/a> 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. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not focusing on the basics \u2014 math, reading and writing,\u201d he said. \u201cThey\u2019re focusing more on the \u2018LGBTs\u2019 than the \u2018ABCs.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A representative for Fox News did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year, DeAngelis released a book titled \u201cThe Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids From the Radicals Ruining Our Schools.\u201d A description of the book<\/a> says it \u201cexposes the hypocritical elites who are content to hold other people\u2019s children captive to poorly run government schools.\u201d Trump praised the book on his social media site, Truth Social, in May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCorey DeAngelis is a FIGHTER for Parental Rights,\u201d Trump wrote<\/a>. \u201cHis new book, The Parent Revolution, is a great guide to help Moms and Dads take back control of their children\u2019s education from the RADICAL MARXISTS ruining our schools.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s endorsement of the book is pinned to the top of DeAngelis\u2019 Instagram account<\/a> and quoted at the top of his X account. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In July, Republican vice presidential candidate JD Vance\u2002shared one of DeAngelis\u2019 X posts<\/a> that included a video of Vance vowing to fight for schoolchildren to \u201cget a good education and not an indoctrination.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A spokesperson for the Trump-Vance campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, DeAngelis shared an X post<\/a> 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\u2019s reading program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cSchools should be places for education \u2014 not indoctrination,\u201d the post said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

DeAngelis has not posted on his social media accounts since Thursday. His landing page<\/a> at the American Federation for Children appears to have been taken down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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