A gay high school teacher in a suburb of Little Rock, AR has had his career and life derailed after a hacker gained access to his sex tape and posted it on the school website.
Brian Cody Bray, 29, was fired from his job at Maumelle Charter High School after the administration learned the video, which depicted Bray and another man having consensual sex, had been made available to students, teachers and faculty.
Bray was home on sick leave when a co-worker phoned him to let him know the sex tape had been posted online.
“Pretty much immediately after that phone call I went to the bathroom and threw up,” Bray told the Washington Blade. “I was just in shock that oh my God, this is something that will impact my career, impact my life and what am I going to do?”
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Shortly after, he attempted to explain to the school’s principal and the executive director of the school district how the crime had been committed — that his email, DropBox and other accounts had been compromised.
Most telling was the fact that the perpetrator changed the name of the DropBox folder the video was in from “Private” to “FagTeachBray,” a clear sign he’d been targeted for being gay.
For reasons we’re having a hard time seeing, Bray went along with the idea that he needed to be fired after the gross invasion of privacy.
“Of course I had to be dismissed at the time because I had lost any kind of authority with my students there,” Bray remembers being told.
But he feels the school was wrong to deny him severance pay and suggest to the community that he was at fault for what happened.
School officials went so far as to file an ethics complaint against him with the Arkansas Professional Licensure Standards Board, which could have seen his teaching license revoked. Ultimately, the board found there was insufficient evidence that Bray had violated the ethics code for Arkansas educators.
Bray has set up a GoFundMe page to help with living expenses as he pursues recourse and attempts to get his life back on track.
avesraggiana
He should do porn. With looks like that, he’ll raise a lot of money in no time flat.
Glücklich
Not crazy about the GoFundMe aspect but if the License board found he didn’t violate any statutes, he should be entitled to severance. Maybe the severance package isn’t generous and not worth the getting but he should get his (likely) powerful teachers’ union involved to seek some recompense *while he pursues criminal charges against the hacker.*
Putting aside the fact this occurred in AR, no matter how enlightened everyone becomes, sex tapes meant only for private use by the willing, legal participants’ll always be shocking and potentially damaging – certainly embarrassing – when they fall into the wrong hands.
Stop making ’em. Do people really sit in front of the fire and watch ’em with nostalgia? Like birth videos. Why tape it?
Joseph C Landis-Midnight
Sex tapes have never been a good idea.
jheryn
He was smart saying he lost authority with parents and students because of the video.
What teacher, gay or straight, that has his/her sex vid leaked to the whole community would still hold on to their authority or respect of those they teach.
It isn’t that he is gay, it is that he made a sex tape. The guy is an idiot.
When will people stop making these things. It is their right to make them, but don’t whine about the consequences if they become public.
On the other hand, the school board asking for his teaching license to be revoked all should lose their positions. This guy may be an idiot for making a sex tape, but it isn’t as if it was MADE for public viewing or that he had any intentions to “soil” children’s lives. That board is reprehensible.
Paco
@Glücklich: “Do people really sit in front of the fire and watch ’em with nostalgia? Like birth videos.”
Good question. Maybe it is narcissism, or a trophy.
Walter Butscher
That sucks. He is a handsome guy too
avesraggiana
@Glücklich: because they’re kinda hot…especially when you’re a very vocal little bottom like me. Those big ole Tops pounding into me, whew…..*fanning self furiously*
1898
Part of me feels bad for this guy; part of me wants to ask him, “What the hell were you thinking?”
It’s bad enough that the video existed at all (an angry ex could’ve used it against him), but to store it in the cloud where it could be found not just by an angry ex but also by someone else who wanted to embarrass him or exact revenge on him? Very risky.
I’m sure it’s just another case of someone not thinking ahead and not thinking about consequences. But it’s not like these types of things haven’t happened before. If you work with kids or work with the community, you NEED to think ahead about these things.
It’s not lost on me that a straight teacher might not have been fired for the same infraction. The double standard does suck. All the more reason to be more careful, especially in a place like Arkansas.
mfullmer
@avesraggiana: You win the internet today! 😉
mfullmer
I can’t pass judgement until I see the video. 🙂
October Ramirez
His private world was hacked and posted. While a sex tape was a bad idea and would get a heterosexual fired, it still is a loss. It was also a crime. He should have received severance pay.
scotshot
Hardway to learn a lesson.
da90027
I hope the person who did this to him has Karma hit them really hard…what a disgusting human being to do this to someone.
avesraggiana
@mfullmer: Ahahaha!!!
Bascha
Horrible thing to do to someone, of course he can’t stay at that job after being humiliated like that, of course he deserves severance pay…..BUT WHY WAS YOUR SEX TAPE IN YOUR DROPBOX FOLDER? Keep that stuff hidden deep down in the confines of your personal computer, not “in the cloud.” When will people learn?
gggb
People are so pathetic — it’s almost surreal. It’s bad enough that he had to work. And then he had to be fired for a sex tape? WHAT’S WRONG WITH YOU?
Tommy O'Brien
He should go to the authorities and file a complaint. The way the file was labeled sounds like it was a student.
The school was right to fire and I am surprised he agreed with their rationale
Devin Lezama
that is so wrong
James
@jheryn: Are you uptight conservative and straight enough yet. With people like you there would be no art and no revolutions.
James
Obviously some people rather than attacking the hacker are attacking the victim. Probably all closet cases.
okbye
I don’t agree with him being fired but man, do not put a sex tape in a cloud. I hope they catch whoever did it, what an asshole.
Andrew Rankin
Am I the only one looking passed the fact the guy is gay, or that he made a sex tape that was never meant for the public? The well-heeled classes do it & get elevated to “celebrity” status, but a teacher does it & his career is over?!!
The crime here should be that someone hacked or stole his private property & made it available to the world. At least the UK is looking at these “thefts” as a crime & a form of blackmail.
Find the culprit who set out to steal someone else’s private belongings & nail the SOB to the wall.
Jeremy Sebero
Well if he had a union teaching job vs a private charter school. He would not have been fired.
Sammy Schlipshit
He shouldn’t have quit.
He should have forced the school board to come up with some bullshit excuse why they are firing him, withholding his severance and going after his license.
As one commentator stated…..Would have never happened this way if he had been str8.
This guy had nothing to do with any of this other than being dumb enough to post to the ever fucked up, seemingly easily hacked cloud.
That was stupid.
CWM85
Having a sex tape float around is not exactly a good image for students. Never do A sex tape or full naked pics with ya face in pic.
Leonard Woodrow
The hacker should be found and made to pay a large amount in damages to this unfortunate guy.
However, it must be said that up-loading gay videos of yourself having sex is hardly a sensible thing to do in a bigoted, backward society
Tobi
If you must make and keep such things, store them on a usb flash drive that you only plugin when you want to watch the action replay, don’t leave them on your phone, laptop or god-forbid in the cloud, the internet is not always your friend.
Jerry Green
I hope they catch whoever did this and publicly shame him/her as well as throw the book at them.
stanhope
Common sense which isn’t common should have told him making a sex tape and storing it on any sort of cloud was stupid. As a teacher, especially in arkansas, he should have passed on the idea. While I don’t think he should have lost his job he put himself in a bad position. Gofundme is ridiculous, he should get a signed release from the other fellow and post that video for profit and make a series. Get paid.
Kangol
@avesraggiana: Best comment on this thread. LOL
jack dixon
When you are a teacher you should show better judgement, When you are Gay even more so.
In a place like Little Rock Ark he should of been smart enough not to make a sex tape. When you live in some back water community you should be aware that Haters are going to be
watching you and act accordingly. I like to know why anyone would even make a sex tape in this day and age with all the Hackers and Sleaze balls about. Also is your ego so needy that you have to film yourself in such a compromising way. leave porn to the tat’d druggies loser’s with family issues.
tardis
What a infuriating story. I wonder who leaked the video, and why? And why did the district fire him? For being gay? Most likely. Don’t get me wrong, of course there’s implications with making sex tapes, but it’s not like he deliberately leaked the tape. The situation was completely out of his control. Little Rock, AR is being too cruel, but I suppose that’s what you expect to happen in places like that.
jbqueernews04
@Glücklich: ..
Will L
First, he made a sex tape. Not a good idea because at *some* point (even after you are dead), the wrong people will see it.
Second, he put the video in DropBox. If he was going to do that, why didn’t he just put the damn thing on YouTube for everyone to see?
It’s pretty sleazy for anyone to move this to the school’s website but he was very careless to have made this available. My sympathy level is very low. I’ve worked for the government. Your reputation and integrity are everything. Same goes for teaching.
jbqueernews04
@Paco: Could be both. Or neither. Makes absolutely no difference. These videos are OK as long as this dude has the permission of the other party in making them. And I think he probably did have it, because we would have heard from the other person by now if that was not the case. Now he is out of work. Does that injustice not offend you, or is the more important thing that he has a curious fetish that you personally don’t practice?
redcarpet30
I don’t care if he was getting fisted live on stage at the Black Party, Teachers have sex. What they do when they are off the clock is no concern to ANYONE so long as its legal and consensual. Your children will be fine chill the fuck out church ladies.
I am so damn sick of employers dictating what I do in my off time, I don’t fucking care what your job is. OUR JOBS ARE NOT US!
Xzamilio
To hell with a GoFundMe… set up a GoFuckMe account. The money will come pouring in, and you’ll be set for life, if you die at 31.
jbqueernews04
@Andrew Rankin: I agree completely. Some of his biggest critics here, probably have an enormous amount of the grottiest porn ever made on their own computer.
joeyty
@jack dixon: Little Rock….ugh. All I can think of is the Clintons.
joeyty
@jack dixon: Not as bad as San Francisco though. At least I never heard of anyone getting beat up by twenty guys for wearing white pants in Little Rock.
DCguy
So they fired him for being gay, and then filed an ethics complaint against them. What exactly did they base the complaint on? The sex was consensual, the tape was stolen, so the complaint was what? That he was gay?
Instead of a go fund me page, he needs to file a lawsuit against the school district. Unless of course there is something else to this story that we aren’t hearing.
Pete
If a hacker gained access to his sex tape, he would have had to have downloaded it at some point. While I (obviously) agree that someone’s private life should have no impact on their ability to teach (or do anything), putting it out there at all showed a tremendous lack of judgement. He works with children, after all.
Is it on a tube site? Does anyone have a link?
Pete
He describes himself on his GoFundMe page as ‘the survivor of a hate-crime’. Really.
jbqueernews04
@Glücklich: Our collective commentary in this thread seems to have been derailed, with the result that the more self-righteous among us have revealed themselves to be more fascinated by the phenomenom of sex tapes, than they are by the fact that someone’s privacy has been violated in the worst possible, [and exploitative] way. Interesting – how prudish people are about these things.
jbqueernews04
@redcarpet30: @redcarpet30: ‘Black Party Fist Fest’. That’s the video I wanna see…..
Dominique Tolomeo
He committed zero violations, he is entitled to privacy. Lawyer up man!
darkanser
Truly a cautionary tale. I suppose the consequences would have been the same had it been 20-30 years ago and he had made a VHS tape which then got stolen when someone burglarized his home. Well, not quite as bad for the viral aspect of the exposure would not have been as possible. It’s not difficult to imagine his throwing up after learning of the breach. I wish him luck.
Brian
I really feel for Bray but the take-home message here is: don’t put your sex tapes on a computer. If you’re in a position of authority, you need to understand that these sorts of things can undermine your authority if they become public.
I’d like to know who did the hacking. They should be charged.
Mack
@Tommy O’Brien: A disgruntled student. Someone is pissed at him for some reason. This was pay back.
John Malin
If people in sensitive careers, such as teaching or politics, etc. are silly enough to make sex tapes, they need to be aware of the consequences, if those tapes become public. That being said, he deserved a severance package. Best of luck to him!
CivicMinded
The lesson here is don’t put your personal data on the Internet. Big companies like Apple and Microsoft are pushing consumers to use cloud resources and give up data storage at home. This is stupid. These off-site storage facilities will be hacked. If you’re writing a book and storing it in the cloud, someone is eventually going to steal it. Fight back against these big companies. Stop using the cloud and learn how to back up your computer so you don’t lose your data when your computer hard drive goes bad. Don’t even think about online backups. Store a back up in a safe deposit box at your bank.
Billy Budd
He should NOT have been fired. NO.
Billy Budd
When I taught management in the USA, my boss had a meeting with the new employees and emphasized: You do NOT date your students. I am sure she had myself in mind when she said that. My students were cute as hell but I did not touch them. OH OMG, the lost opportunities.
jasentylar
Of all the things from Gofundme, this one is a deserving cause. Please support this guy. He was treated poorly by the district.
Portland Bud
This guy is 29 years old, but who knows when the tape was made…Young and foolish…We have all been there. Unfortunately, when you decide to be a teacher or go into a public profession you just don’t film anything about yourself unless it is boring and G-rated. This is not a gay/straight issue. His firing is unfortunate, but deserved.
Now, I must say, I spent time recently in Little Rock for business. Where was that cutie when I was out and about?!! He should relocate to Portland, Oregon. We are a pretty liberal and forgiving lot. He would probably be able to get work teaching. He could also use his education and become a corporate trainer.
***The person who distributed this video should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Caleb Abrams
Idk I think the result would have been the same if he was straight.
Ogre Magi
Gays need to avoid the South
and all men gay or straight need to avoid the teaching profession.
I have heard from many in Education that male teachers are automatically suspected by parents and their fellow teachers of being pedophiles and Yet school administrators continuously whine about the need for male teachers and scratch their heads in wonder that male teachers are so hard to come by and keep
joeyty
@Ogre Magi: Why the South ? San Francisco is where a guy was just gaybashed for wearing white pants. By twenty men too.
Ridpathos
Feel sorry for the guy. He’ll probably never find another teaching job. As a teacher as well, he was right that he basically lost all of his authority after that was out, and I agree with other posters that I don’t think it has to do with his sexuality.
However the ethics accusation and the lack of severance pay was probably due to homophobia on the part of the school board.
Ridpathos
@Ogre Magi: I would have disagreed with you about the pedophilia accusations except that last week that’s exactly what I experienced. Basically a parent accused me of “preying” on his child simply because he found out I was gay. I work in the Bay Area too. (although this parent is a redneck Trump supporter)
What he was really doing was trying to push responsibility away for the behavior of his child and his own lack of parenting skills onto someone else. Everyone saw through it, and called BS on him. Even the kid.
wwerts1
I wish him all the success while he get his life back on track. Good luck Bray
Jerry12
I truly do not understand why anyone who is not a sex worker would EVER post a sex tape on the Internet. It is simply asking for trouble.
Ogre Magi
@joeyty: WHAT??? Tell me more
Ogre Magi
@Ridpathos: Redneck in the Southern sense of the word or just as a term for general oafishness?
jorgecruz
If he had a sex tape, he probably had a grindr profile and some nude pics probably floating around as well. I am a little disappointed in the Queerty readers that no one that has hooked up with him through some phone app hasn’t come forward with his profile pics. Let’s see the real Bray please.
Joel Galley
Haha gutted! Nah chin up mate ð??ð?¼
truckeralex
The ONLY reason anyone cares is he’s hot and not a slob! And named BRAY
brandon
so… this sex tape, tho…
Nahald
The student who did the hacking needs to be expelled if this guy was fired. Can someone say LAWSUIT ?
DCguy
@Ridpathos:
This stuff needs to be penalized and stopped. You should get a lawyer and file a slander complaint against the parent.
girldownunder
Sue the school.
What you do in private is private.
If someone else releases film is up to the school website to decide. If they have no filters in place, THEY are at fault.
This teacher has a massive case of defamation due to invasion of privacy involving the perpetrator & the school.
I’d get a good lawyer.
14Allkids
Well if last week we see a teacher in Oregon keeping their jobs after threatening to kill students simply by saying oh it was a “Joke” he too should say “Just Kidding”! All would have fine Right?
joeyty
@Ogre Magi: http://www.queerty.com/gay-bashing-victim-shares-powerful-video-about-love-and-resilience-20160209 San Francisco is more dangerous than anywhere, I guess.
seaguy
One thing he should do ASAP is get the hell out of AR which has gone deep red since the days that Clinton was gov there.
Masc Pride
LOL @ getting cyberbullied by your own students. Anymore deets on how he was “hacked”? How would a student gain access to a device that has your homemade porn on it?
Any of you guys outraged enough to donate to his GoFundMe account?
Ogre Magi
@joeyty:
I want to believe him but after a web search for a real article on the attack I read that,
1. 20 straight guys were involved.
2. Police weren’t called.
3. The location of the attack is unclear
Paco
I don’t understand why he stored it in a Dropbox folder. I thought Dropbox was mainly used for sharing files with others. Who was he planning on sharing the video with?
Paco
@Ogre Magi: why are you using my comment from another unrelated story?
joeyty
@Ogre Magi: But Queerty says the gaybashing really happened. Queerty doesn’t say “alleged”.
Glücklich
@Masc Pride:
I feel bad for him but not outraged enough to donate.
My mind always goes to employers wielding the ax against employees for social media activities deemed disagreeable. It’s nice that “it happens on their own time and doesn’t involve the company” but reality is another thing entirely.
Imagine that sex tape with you elbow deep in a stranger landing in your boss’ inbox and every inbox in the company, every inbox at the firm’s clients.
Make all the sex tapes you want and enjoy them in good health but be aware what the worst case scenario is.
joeyty
https://www.facebook.com/events/1532292407064717/ And the Gay Mafia is so stupid that they’re doing a takeover of the HiFi bar that Jefferey Lafayette said he was bashed at. To “take the Marina back for gay people!” LMAO !!! Did anyone (outside of San Francisco) ever witness such childish simpleton suckers for ANY dingy story?
coop69er
I have to agree with most of the comments that he has lost any credibility with that community, but he should go on to teach elsewhere. There are many places, even in the south, where his video indiscretion would be overlooked.
Go look for a job in a bigger city, Houston, Dallas, NOLA, Austin… and get on with your life.
Scott McIntosh
You Americans with your Puritan sexual mores. He made it in his own time, it was not with a school child, it was not on school premises. What right does the School think it has to sack him. In Europe the right to private life is enshrined in European law, it’s about time you caught up. Hope he sues the School Board to hell.
joeyty
@Scott McIntosh: Unless Muslims force the teacher to resign for even bringing up the subject of homosexuality, as has already happened.
Chris
It’s a charter school. He has virtually no rights.
Let’s not blame the victim here. What he did, while embarrassing, was not wrong. I wish him the best for his future.
Masc Pride
@Glücklich: For as long as I’ve been employed, I’ve never had any explicit vids or pics leaked to by boss and coworkers. Most people won’t experience a situation like this, and for good reason. It’s rather vague on how the students gained access to such explicit “social media”, but the fact that they were even able to means he had to have been a bit careless. He may have done the video on his own time, but when it winds up being shared by students, it’s made its way into the workplace/school. He needs to learn from this and move on.
Masc Pride
*leaked to my boss
baggins435
I can see making a sex tape when you’re young and (relatively) “hot” and trotting it out to watch 20 or 30 years later. But only an idiot would keep it on anything that could get compromised, like a phone, or the cloud, or even a computer connected to the internet. Put the video on a thumb drive or memory card and lock it away.