Matt Sanchez

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Matt Sanchez and Ann Coulter Fox News Green Room, December 2006

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

Biography

Early Years

Sanchez was born and raised in San Jose, California. After high school, he traveled to Madrid on vacation where he made a living teaching English at an academia, an informal language center for students. Sanchez worked at several academias in Italy, France, and Portugal before moving to Montreal for several years where he learned French, and Berlin, where he learned German.

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.

Other activities

Sanchez was a consultant for TIVO, Digital Cities, and helped to create an early model for web-ads called Clickables, which he sold for an undisclosed amount. He also created and optioned the Movie Minute [1]

A Marine Corps Times article disclosed that his Military Occupational Specialty is 1161 that of a refrigeration mechanic. Mr. Sanchez recently became a partner in a public relations and marketing firm, but he refuses to name the firm citing political hate mail from internet attackers.

Controversy

Sanchez angered homosexual activists, whom he referred to as gay jihadist and gay fundamentalist when he stated that his orientation was not gay.Sanchez blog. [2] Gay activists have since criticized Sanchez for being anti-gay or refusing to speak out in support of homosexual causes. Sanchez has vigorously stated that he has no interest in homosexual causes whatsoever, which has caused a backlash from homosexual bloggers.

Critics have noted that Sanchez is in the middle of the cultural wars by having been in the adult film industry and being a conservative. Hypocrisy is what critics have shouted, despite Sanchez' strong criticism of the adult pornographic industry and his former participation in that industry. Many prominent conservatives, David Horowitz, Kevin McCullough, Michelle Malkin and Ann Coulter have come forward to support Cpl. Matt Sanchez, while many liberals and particularly homosexual activists have criticized him for hypocrisy--a criticism he stringently denies.

Columbia University

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

Complaints about anti-military bias on Columbia campus

Matt Sanchez on Hannity and Colmes, December 2006

Sanchez first became known on campus for making complaints about harassment from Columbia University leftists for being in the military. He claims to have been called a "baby-killer," along with other epithets. His media appearances include an interview in the Columbia Spectator, the New York Daily News, USAToday and several articles written for the New York Post and the Marine Corps Times, as well as appearances on several Fox News television programs, including The O'Reilly Factor and Hannity & Colmes. Sanchez is well connected to people in the conservative clubs on campus but is not an officer and holds no elected position.

Sanchez was awarded the Jeane Kirkpatrick Academic Freedom Award for his work fighting discrimination against military and veterans at Columbia University at the Conservative Political Action Conference in March of 2007. A photograph of Sanchez with commentator Ann Coulter taken previous to the event has been reprinted in much of the coverage relating to Sanchez's distinct career history.

Escorting Controversy

The headless photos pictured below 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.


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

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

External links

External links on the Rod Majors revelation

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