Queer news update

Recently from the LGBTQ inter-tubes:

• Tom Colicchio, host of Bravo's Top Chef, went pro-marriage equality on his blog after an episode in which competitors (including the gay ones) had to cook for a straight wedding
  
  
• Even as the debate continues on whether or not we should take marriage equality to the ballots in 2010 or 2012 (and group support flip-flops, too), LGBT political orgaznizers meet in SF this weekend to strategize, including language of a future ballot initiative.
  
  
• From Regent University, via Queerty: "70% of Gay Christian College Students Knew They Were Gay By Age 13"
  
• LiveNation and AEG cancel Buju Banton's U.S. Reggae tour after LGBT community responds to his homophobic and violent lyrics ("If a guy comes near me,” he sings, “then his skin must peel. Burn him up bad like an old tire wheel.”)
  
  
• Gay adoption might be coming to Urugauy
  
  
• A heterosexual, Sacramento writer goes "undercover gay" at a Journey into Manhood (take-my-gay-away) conference in Salt Lake, and writes about it (kind of)
  
  
• You didn't already hear? Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass will be smooching another dude in the third season--no, not (just) for ratings, for his girlfriend
  
  
• This version of the Breakfast Club is so queer!
  
  
• Not sure what this means for us, but yes, scientists have created lesbian worms
  
  
• Are asexuals the newest type of queer to come out?
  
  
• In a first-of-its-kind report, the CDC released numbers showing that bi/gay men in the United States contract HIV at rates 50 times higher than straight men
  
  
• Next week, the Nevada Secretary of State's office will begin taking applications for domestic partnerships
  
  
• January 11, 2010 is the date set for Proposition 8 to go to trial in federal court. The ACLU, the National Center for Lesbian Rights, and Lambda Legal were all denied in their request to be a party to the action.