Matt Sanchez

Matt Sanchez and Ann Coulter at CPAC

Matthew Sanchez, or Matt Sanchez a.k.a. "Rod Majors", (born 1 December 1970) is a Columbia University student. Before working as an adult film star, he was a paralegal and an English instructor. He has served in the United States Marine Corps and is a corporal.

Biography

Youth

Matt Sanchez was born and raised in San Jose, California. He lived in Madrid, Montreal, and Berlin, where he learned Spanish, French and German respectively. Andy Towle, a gay blogger [1] and former graduate student at Stanford, claims to have briefly dated Sanchez in 1989.

Adult Film Career

In the early 1990s, Sanchez worked as an adult film performer. First, in 1992, as Pierre LaBranche while working for Robert Russell a.k.a. Kristen Bjorn. In 1993, he traveled to Los Angeles and the studios changed his name to the more universal Rod Majors.

He starred in several bisexual videos for Catalina and Falcon Entertainment. Sanchez appeared in several films including Call of the Wild (1992), Montreal Men (1992), and Idol Country (released in 1994) and posed for Playgirl . Sanchez subsequently left the adult film industry, and lived in Germany, Miami, Madrid, and New York.

Escorting Controversy

Cropped versions of the photos pictured below (without heads), have appeared in both gay and mainstream publications. Talk show host Alan Colmes cited the image on a web page as well as a phone number. Sanchez has said he too has seen the headless photo in popular sites like Manhunt.com, Rentboy.com, and NYPress and the New York Blade especially since the controversy hit the mainstream press. Homosexual bloggers have used this information to call Sanchez a liar. Sanchez told Alan Colmes that he personally has seen his photos, used without authorization, throughout the country and as far away as Sydney, Australia. Sanchez denies ever placing the ads as a male escort. Sanchez told radio host Kevin McCullough that "pornography is prostitution", a charge many liberal activists have criticized as hypocritical.

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  Photo at the center of the escorting allegations. This photo appeared in advertisements in both San Francisco and Sydney, Australia at the same time.

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  Escorting Controversy: A headless version of this photo has appeared in the New York Blade as well as a San Francisco, Miami, New York.

Other activities before coming to Columbia

In the late 1990s, Sanchez left the porn industry, and moved to Berlin for a year. He learned German and worked at Time Out Berlin.

Military Career

According to the Military Times, Sanchez joined the Marine Corps on May 14, 2003 at the age of 32, and is a refrigeration mechanic. He is currently on Individual Ready Reserve, which holds the stipulations that he receive no pay or benefits and is not obligated to drill, conduct annual training, or participate in any military activities until activated by Presidential Reserve Callup Authority. While in the Marines, he was a part of HQ COMPANY 6TH COMM BN 4TH MARDIV, also known as 6th Comm; they are based out of Floyd Bennet Field in Brooklyn, NY. After a stint with 6th Comm, Sanchez took a position at the New York Public Affairs Office of the Marine Corps.

Columbia

Sanchez is currently a student at Columbia in the School of General Studies Class of 2007. He has passionately defended veteran rights on campus. In particular, he won won approval for the Columbia University War Memorial, a project that will honor all alumni who have fallen in American conflicts since the War for Independence.

Complaints about military bias on Columbia campus

Sanchez became well known after criticizing administration officials for failing to take any action following an incident on campus where members of a socialist student group harassed him at a college activities fair. The students said Sanchez was too stupid to realize that the military was taking advantage of him as a minority. He has since become an an outspoken critic of anti-military bias among students, faculty and administration at Columbia. His media career started with an interview in the Columbia Spectator. After this he appeared on several Fox News television programs, including the O'Reilly Factor and Hannity and Colmes.

Adult Film revelation

Sanchez attended the 2007 Conservative Political Action Conference where Ann Coulter made her infamous "faggot" insult about John Edwards. He received the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award and was photographed with Coulter. A number of gay bloggers (including Joe. My. God) recognized Sanchez as a former gay porn star by the name of Rod Majors, as described above. The story, rapidly seized upon by blogs including The Bwog, Datalounge and Gawker, has since been covered by several major news organizations.

When the allegation hit the blogosphere, Sanchez was quick to respond with an op-ed piece he wrote for the liberal-leaning Salon.com blog. Right-wingers David Horowitz (on Front Page Mag) and Michelle Malkin have come out in Sanchez's defense.

Photos

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External links

• Sanchez's blog
• Sanchez's Facercise page
• Reaction from former MilVets VP
• Facebook profile
• Hear Sanchez talk!
• Amazon.com book reviews written by Matthew Sanchez
• Columbia Spectator: the article that started his media career
• Alleged Manhunt.net profile
• Alleged escort website (NSFW - don't follow this link if you are too young to view adult material)
• Films featuring Rod Majors
• Films featuring Rod Majors, even more of them
• IMDb profile
• Interview from 1998 about his porn career

External links on the Rod Majors revelation

• Marine Times: Reservist acknowledges gay porn past
• Gay video fans voice their suspicions (in December)
• MSNBC Countdown story
• The Bwog: "Dirty" Sanchez Speaks
• Gawker: Right-Wing Hero Has Porn Past, Claim Gays
• Sanchez on the Alan Colmes radio show

California Birth Index showing "Matthew Sanchez, born 1 Dec 1970, Santa Clara County"

Wikipedia article on Individual Ready Reserve