section_path: Personal life/Relationships
section_name: Relationships
paragraph_text: Relationships
  
  Booker has never been married, and in 2013 he was named one of Town & Country ' s "Top 40 Bachelors". Although he has generally tried to keep his personal life private, Booker has in the past referred to himself as a "straight male" and said that he is trying to date more in hopes of finding someone to settle down with. He has been romantically linked to poet Cleo Wade. In March 2019, actress Rosario Dawson confirmed to TMZ that she was in a relationship with Booker. Their relationship ended in February 2022.
  
  In a 1992 column in The Stanford Daily, Booker admitted that as a teenager he had " hated gays. " He has himself been rumored to be gay and has generally refused to address rumors like these on principle, as he explained in 2013:
  
  Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. 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."
  
  Booker has never been married, and in 2013 he was named one of Town & Country ' s "Top 40 Bachelors". Although he has generally tried to keep his personal life private, Booker has in the past referred to himself as a "straight male" and said that he is trying to date more in hopes of finding someone to settle down with. He has been romantically linked to poet Cleo Wade. In March 2019, actress Rosario Dawson confirmed to TMZ that she was in a relationship with Booker. Their relationship ended in February 2022.
  
  In a 1992 column in The Stanford Daily, Booker admitted that as a teenager he had " hated gays. " He has himself been rumored to be gay and has generally refused to address rumors like these on principle, as he explained in 2013:
  
  Because I want to challenge people on their homophobia. 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."