booker, stray or gate?

whatever cory booker's sexual orientation is, he gives exactly the right response:  "I love seeing on Twitter when someone says I’m gay, and I say, ‘So what does it matter if I am? So be it. I hope you are not voting for me because you are making the presumption that I’m straight.’" this is especially the right response if, as his gay friend jonathan capehart says, he is straight. it's kind of difficult to say something like that, actually, and one feature of straight men (say of my generation) is that we/i were/are/am often extremely anxious to establish that we are not gay. i think probably at least for the first x years of this blog (started 2004), for example, i probably rarely or even never wrote about any issue of sexual orientation without finding a way to assure everyone that i'm straight. (there, i did it again!) i tried to stop doing that later. well, that there is homophobia, and booker's is the courageously right approach, especially in the middle of a senate campaign, for god's sake.