Cory Booker Wrote About His Homophobia at Stanford
In 1992, Cory Booker wrote an op-ed column for the Stanford Daily about his (successful) struggle to shed his homophobia. “I was disgusted by gays,” Booker wrote at the time. “The thought of two men kissing each other was about as appealing as a frontal lobotomy.” And another bit: “Allow me to be more direct, escaping the euphemisms of my past – I hated gays. The disgust and latent hostility I felt toward gays were subcategories of hatred, plain and simple.” Being Cory Booker, the Newark mayor responded to criticism on twitter, first by explaining his column, then simply by re-tweeting, and hence, promoting the column.
I was writing about my teenage struggle for integrity. Thanks RT @matthix: Cory Booker was even super awesome in 1992. stanforddaily.com/2013/01/09/cor…
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) January 10, 2013
RT @ryanheisinger: A good read about how Cory Booker struggled with his own homophobia earlier in life: stanforddaily.com/2013/01/09/cor…
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) January 10, 2013
“I have decided to stick to love…Hate is too great a burden to bear.” Martin Luther King Jr.
— Cory Booker (@CoryBooker) January 11, 2013
