Cory Booker, LGBT Champion

Charlotte
Cory Booker won’t say if he’s running for governor of New Jersey, but when I ask if he’s going to challenge Republican governor Chris Christie next year at the Democrats’ LGBT caucus meeting Thursday afternoon, he answers with a nervous laugh.

Booker, the popular 43-year-old Democratic mayor of Newark, isn’t so coy in his address to the few hundred gay Democratic activists here. He praises Democratic state senator Loretta Weinberg’s efforts to pass a gay marriage bill through the New Jersey legislature.