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I just checked, it’s slightly more complicated than both of us recalled:
Dustin Lance Black has a few choice words on Pasadena college payout

He sued over the photos. He threatened the college with legal action but did not end up suing them; they did have to pay out to him to cover the legal expenses incurred because they insisted on communicating via lawyers over the matter.

So there was a payout from the College, but it was for costs, not compensation.

(What a stupidly wasteful situation that was …)
Dustin is insufferable tbh
 
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I just checked, it’s slightly more complicated than both of us recalled:
Dustin Lance Black has a few choice words on Pasadena college payout

He sued over the photos. He threatened the college with legal action but did not end up suing them; they did have to pay out to him to cover the legal expenses incurred because they insisted on communicating via lawyers over the matter.

So there was a payout from the College, but it was for costs, not compensation.

(What a stupidly wasteful situation that was …)
I wasn't aware of the later payment, just the initial $100k lawsuit when the photos first appeared. Even then it felts like PCC was using the photos as an excuse to not have him as the speaker. The PCC Board has a lot of other issues, as the article intimated. They acted liked fools, wasted everyone's time, and ended up with egg on their face and a bill to pay.
 

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What sort of stuff does he post there?
This week we’ve had almost daily post-workout pics with a description of the workout, a video from the Sports Awards thing he was at the other night, an additional video talking about Easter with the family as well as the usual early access to his YouTube video and all-but-pointless unedited version of it.

It’s most unusual to get this many posts though!
 
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State funding for a gold medalist is only £28k a year, and you can earn up to £50k from sponsorship before you lose that funding. Tom’s YouTube channel alone probably takes him over the earning threshold. Apparently his company accounts show £500k in revenue in 2020, before the Olympics. He’s not short of a few bob.

I reckon Lance makes more than you’d think. He got a house in West Hollywood out of Big Love, the first TV show he worked on, and was a producer on Milk because he was originally self-funding development on it. I know that he has taken long periods off for politics and had to deal with America’s broken healthcare system, but as far as I know he hasn’t needed to take short-term jobs just for a pay check.

They don’t live a particularly extravagant lifestyle so maybe it’s just sensible money management, but if Lance can afford to take a lot of time over passion projects it’s probably because he has a steady income from residuals on his previous work.
Tom confirmed in his last live that the documentary adaptation of Lance’s memoir Mama’s Boy was made on spec and has now sold.

edit: sorry to everyone here for the sexy pics and bored by the money/Patreon talk!
It’s enriching. Thank you.