Corey DeAngelis has been fired from his senior fellowship at the American Federation for Children (AFC), an anti-LGBTQ+ “school choice” organization, amid admitting in a recent interview that he appeared as “Seth Rose” on the gay adult video website GayHoopla.
“Corey is no longer at AFC,” an AFC spokesperson told Reason. “We wish him well in his next endeavors, and we remain focused on our mission to expand educational opportunity for families, particularly lower-income families, across the country.”
DeAngelis — who wrote The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids from the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, a 2024 book endorsed by former President Donald Trump — appeared on the GayHoopla website, which described him as a “hot otter.” He performed in a solo scene, a video entitled “Jerk-Off Race,” and another entitled “Super Star Compilation! How Many Strokes Til You Cum?!” The videos appear to have been released at around 2014.
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DeAngelis had previously alluded to his appearances in the videos, calling them “mistakes” and adding, “I was a victim of poor decisions and poor influences. I have turned that experience into the fuel that fires me to save young people from being put in the same position I was put in and to help parents protect their children.”
However, in a recent interview with the Christian Broadcasting Network, an anti-LGBTQ media outlet, DeAngelis finally confessed, saying, “There are images and videos circulating of me from my college days about a decade ago that I’m not proud of. They’re embarrassing,” DeAngelis said. “There has been a cancellation attempt from the left, and my political opponents are trying to accuse me of hypocrisy.”
DeAngelis said the video’s producers were “deceptive” and said he was “lured” into performing because he was misled into believing that he’d be appearing in fitness videos rather than adult videos. Most fitness videos do not include scenes of group masturbation.
“I don’t want this kind of material to be in front of children in the K to 12 education system before they are consenting adults. If I was able to be lured in to make bad decisions as a young adult in college, just imagine how much worse it could be for younger people,” he said, insinuating the common right-wing lie that public schools expose students to sexually explicit content.
He has repeatedly advocated for redirecting taxpayer money to fund private for-profit schools, a major goal of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian conservatives. Such schools can reject students for any reason and operate largely without government oversight to ensure that they adhere to federal nondiscrimination laws.
He also helped draft the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, a blueprint for former President Donald Trump’s re-election which suggests eliminating the Department of Education and all mentions of sexual orientation, gender identity as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) from all federal agency policies. Eliminating LGBTQ+ and DEI language would severely limit the ability of agencies to meet the needs of people from different cultural and economic backgrounds.
DeAngelis told Fox News that public schools are “focusing more on the LGBTs than the ABCs,” a statement echoing a right-wing claim that accepting LGBTQ+ students and opposing anti-LGBTQ+ bullying in schools degrades the quality of public education. He also said that the “radical left’s 2024 weekly lesson plan” for students includes “mandatory pronoun recognition,” “drag queen story hour,” and “boys participating in girls sports.”
“School choice defeats the woke mind virus,” he wrote. However, despite his zeal, AFC scrubbed his biography page and past articles entirely from its website shortly after news of his adult video appearance made headlines.
DeAngelis has maintained his position as an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a senior fellow at the libertarian Reason Foundation, where he is a senior fellow, The Advocate reported. He has vowed to continue his anti-LGBTQ+ activism.
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