A gay porn performer who says he was tricked into masturbating on camera with several other men has joined The Heritage Foundation as a research fellow with the right-wing group’s Center for Education Policy.  

President Donald Trump has called him “a FIGHTER for Parental Rights.” 

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Corey DeAngelis, a self-declared “school choice evangelist” and anti-LGBTQ+ activist, is the author of The Parent Revolution: Rescuing Your Kids From the Radicals Ruining Our Schools, and is a frequent guest on Fox News.

DeAngelis contributed to the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 blueprint for the second Trump administration, calling for the dissolution of the U.S. Department of Education and promoting his view that inclusion of LGBTQ+ identity in public education is part of a “woke mind virus” infecting America’s youth.

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Project 2025 cites removing terms like “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” from federal rules, regulations, and programs as a priority.

In a Fox News appearance in 2024, DeAngelis claimed that public schools are “focusing more 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 said.

In an announcement from the Heritage Foundation of his appointment to the post, DeAngelis said he was “honored” to join the group and vowed to continue pushing policies that “empower families and expand school choice across the nation.”

The conservative activist made headlines in 2024 when he admitted to appearing in multiple gay porn videos under the Gay Hoopla banner. That revelation got him fired from the American Federation of Children, a far-right education nonprofit founded by current Department of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

DeAngelis appeared in several gay porn videos under the name “Seth Rose” — described online as a “hot otter” and “extreme hottie” — including “Super Star Compilation! How Many Strokes Til You Cum?!” and “Jerk-Off Race.” The latter presents “Rose” and several other “muscular” and “caucasian” men who “jerk off furiously” together.

One solo video reminiscent of the gay “physique” genre popular in the pre-Stonewall days — a time the Heritage Foundation would like to return the country to — features DeAngelis as Rose posing and flexing in a Phoenix hotel room before shaving with a buddy and then masturbating.

In an interview while fondling his junk, “Rose” shares his fetish for being masturbated with feet (“She had the arches, y’know?”) and said he’d be down for a threesome with a hot girl and a guy — if it was his buddy.

“Then we could talk about it later.”

“Would you Eiffel Tower her?”

“Yup.”

After DeAngelis was axed from his role at the American Federation of Children in 2024, he claimed he 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. I will never stop fighting for what is right,” he posted to X.

Some on the far-right rallied to the defense of one of their own, calling his firing “classic cancel culture.”

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