Matt Sanchez

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Matt Sanchez and Ann Coulter at CPAC

Matthew Sanchez, or Matt Sanchez a.k.a. "Rod Majors", (born 1 December 1970)[1] 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.

Escort career

In addition to his career in porn, Matt Sanchez worked as a male escort. He alleged to have worked in 4 major US cities, charging $300-$350 per session. In an article for Salon.com, he wrote, "Others were comparing me to Jeff Gannon and claiming that I too had advertised my services as a male escort. I won't deny it."

Sanchez regularly advertised in his escorting services in New York's weekly gay publications and via the Internet, going under the pseudonym "Excellent Top." The internet link to Sanchez's archived escort web page has recently been changed to prevent the archived material to be viewable.

Sanchez claims to have been out of the business for 15 years. However, on the Alan Colmes radio show, Colmes confronted Sanchez with evidence that he had been advertising his services in New York Blade (a gay newspaper) as recently as November 2004. Further evidence of Sanchez's career recently surfaced, with a review of an escort named 'Mateo' (and alias Sanchez has used in the past) appeared on the Daddy's Reviews website. [2] During the Alan Colmes interview, when confronted with evidence that he had advertised his services as recently as three years ago in the New York Blade, Matthew responded, "Anything I'll admit, I'll own up to it".

Sanchez has stated that he no longer does pornography, however in many interviews, he has been evasive concerning the question of whether he still works as a male escort.

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 allegedly worked at Time Out Berlin. He continued working as an escort during his time in 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.[3] 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.

Porn star 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

  • Sanchez on Fox News

  • Sanchez on the Columbia campus

References

  1. ↑ California Birth Index showing "Matthew Sanchez, born 1 Dec 1970, Santa Clara County"
  2. ↑ Daddy's Reviews website
  3. ↑ Wikipedia article on Individual Ready Reserve

External links

External links on the Rod Majors revelation

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