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SAN FRANCISCO -- The hundreds of gay and lesbian weddings performed in San Francisco since Thursday will stand at least through the week-end after a Superior Court judge denied a motion to halt and nullify the same-sex marriages. Following the ruling, which delayed further legal action until at least Tuesday, Mayor Gavin Newsom opened the floodgates, extending city clerk hours until 6 p.m. Friday evening -- with ceremonies likely conducted until midnight. And as if adding an exclamation point, he also announced weekend hours for today, Sunday and the Monday holiday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., no appointment necessary....

Last Updated: Saturday, 14 February, 2004, 07:35 GMT Gays rush to wed in San Francisco It was a day of celebration for gay couples Hundreds of gay couples have been racing to get married in San Francisco after the city's mayor lifted a state ban on same-sex marriage. Mayor Gavin Newsom took the decision on the grounds that the ban was a form of discrimination. San Francisco's new Mayor, Gavin Newsom, decided earlier this week to lift the ban on single-sex marriages in the city. The move has immediately been denounced by anti-gay-groups, who are vowing to fight it in...

The US city of San Francisco has become the first civil authority in the United States to officially marry gay couples in open defiance of laws banning the practice. The city, under the orders of new liberal Mayor Gavin Newsom, officially married at least 15 gay couples and issued marriage licences to around a dozen others. The landmark move in California came as lawmakers in Massachusetts struggled to thwart a court ruling legalising same-sex marriages in the eastern US state. A pair of elderly lesbians became the first couple to have their same-sex union officially blessed in San Francisco, challenging...

Phyllis Lyon, left, 79, and Del Martin, 82, right, both of San Francisco and a couple for 51 years, are escorted through City Hall after they were married in a civil ceremony in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 12, 2004. In a political and legal challenge to California law, city authorities officiated at the marriage of the lesbian couple, then announced they would issue more same-sex marriage licenses.

Gay Marriage Opponents File Suit in S.F. 29 minutes ago By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer SAN FRANCISCO - Opponents of gay marriage went to court Friday to stop an extraordinary act of ongoing civil disobedience in which San Francisco has issued more than 150 marriage licenses to gay couples. Weddings appeared likely to continue through the long holiday weekend despite efforts by the Campaign for California Families and the Alliance Defense Fund to obtain a temporary restraining order that would prevent the city from granting more licenses. A Superior Court hearing was scheduled Friday afternoon. Around the country, gays...

<p>As if 600-year-old redwoods give a damn for your politics.</p> <p>As if struggling salmon care a whit for the Catholic Church's sneering homophobic stance on gay marriage. Like Alaskan elk think your viewpoints on war are far too lopsided to hold sway in the national dialogue.</p>

Military Split On How to Use Special Forces In Terror War By Gregory L. Vistica Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, January 5, 2004; Page A01 With Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld pressuring the Pentagon to take a more aggressive role in tracking down terrorists, military and intelligence officials are engaged in a fierce debate over when and how elite military units should be deployed for maximum effectiveness. Under Rumsfeld's direction, secret commando units known as hunter-killer teams have been ordered to "kick down the doors," as the generals put it, all over the world in search of al Qaeda...

<p>Buff Our SF Bubble, Mayor Attn: Mr. New Mayor Guy -- can you please do something about all the garbage and ennui?</p> <p>Congratulations, Mr. Candidate X! You won! You pulled it off even though many thought you were unlikable and smarmy and lopsided! You are the new mayor of San Francisco!</p>

<p>On paper, the job of San Francisco mayor is supposed to be nonpartisan. In practice, it's been more than four decades since voters elected anyone other than a Democrat to run the city, where the political spectrum seems to run from left-of-center to liberaler-than-thou.</p>

MIAMI (AP) -- Somehow, Ivan Rodriguez and the Florida Marlins held on. The 10-time All-Star catcher withstood a hard collision to tag J.T. Snow for the final out and the Marlins beat Barry Bonds and the San Francisco Giants 7-6 Saturday, clinching their best-of-five division series 3-1. In typically dramatic fashion, the wild-card Marlins moved into the NL championship series to face either the Chicago Cubs or Atlanta. ``This is a start,'' Rodriguez said. ``We have a great team, and I think we can go all the way.'' Dontrelle Willis and the Marlins blew a 5-1 advantage before rookie Miguel...

Iraq brings back the protesters Anti-occupation march attacks Bush policies. People crowded The City's streets Sunday to rally and march against the United States aggression abroad, and particularly, the occupation of Iraq. With the war against Iraq over, protesters focused on bringing home U.S. forces currently occupying Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as America's perceived negative presence in a host of other regions. Americans from countries such as the Philippines, the Koreas, Columbia, and Palestine made up distinct groups within the rally. The Philippine contingent stole the show by drawing people into an energetic circle featuring drumming and chanted slogans...

<p>The conservative commentator James Hirsen, a columnist for Newsmax.com and a regular on Fox News and "The Sean Hannity Show," once played keyboards for the touring Temptations. At the time he was the only white face in the group.</p> <p>His hiring, he says, was "no affirmative action decision. I really had to be funky, or I lost the gig."</p>

Nudity, Crassness, Perversion on Display as San Francisco Celebrates Legal Sodomy 7/2/2003 By Allyson Smith Anti-Catholic 'Sisters' group takes shot at Vice President Cheney SAN FRANCISCO—Homosexuals were jubilant—and some naked—Sunday, June 29, as they celebrated last week’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Texas’ sodomy law during this city’s 33rd annual “gay pride” parade. This writer witnessed no attempt by city police to arrest those who were publicly nude, and no attempts to urge revelers to cover their private parts. The San Francisco "gay" celebration occurred just two days after President George W. Bush visited the city on a campaign stop to...

Rally for the President in SF on Friday morning! Walk a mile from the Millbrae BART station to where the President will be arriving on Friday morning.. Limited street parking, so try to carpool so passengers can be dropped where you see American flags! Tried to paste BART Millbrae map & the "SF (heart)s 'W'" logo, but no such luck. ************* 10:30 am Friday, June 27 SF Airport Marriott - 1800 Old Bayshore Highway ******** For those willing to walk a mile to support the President, take BART to the Millbrae station. (follow the anti-Bush protesters with a folded-up sign...

<p>Hordes of quivering GOP lawmakers and vast throngs of proudly homophobic right-wing Christian Americans fell into an adorable tizzy the other day as the entire really, really big country of Canada announced it will change its law to allow full-on homosexual marriage anywhere in the whole country including Vancouver and Toronto and even "that weird province with all the gay French people."</p>

You know you are in San Francisco when... Your co-worker tells you they have eight body piercings - and none are visible. When someone says "tenderloin" - you don't think steak. You think danger. You make well over $100,000 and you still can't find a nice place to live. You think anyone who drives a car to work is decadent. You keep a list of companies to boycott. Your plumber is gay and your barber/beautitian is straight. You would never dream of crossing a picket line. You take the bus and are shocked at two people carrying on a conversation...

Bomb suspect was Humboldt reporterBY ADRIEL HAMPTONOf The Examiner Staff    The San Francisco man arrested in connection with a Molotov cocktail found at an antiwar protest is a former reporter for three Humboldt County newspapers.    Jacob Lehman, 25, reportedly a student at San Francisco State University, wrote articles for the Humboldt State University newspaper The Lumberjack, the Eureka Times-Standard, and The Arcata Eye.    Lehman left his job at the Times-Standard after the newspaper published a substantial apology regarding a story Lehman wrote about a sheriff's deputy's response to a domestic violence call.     After leaving the Times-Standard, Lehman published his own literary magazine.    As recently...

SAN FRANCISCO -- A San Francisco supervisor said Wednesday that the district attorney's office may issue fines against the organizers of last week's anti-war protests that resulted in over 2,000 arrests and millions of dollars being paid for police overtime and for other city services. Supervisor Tony Hall said the city was "fed up" with mass 'direct action' demonstrations like the ones last week that brought business to a near halt in downtown San Francisco. "I think there is no question about it, people on all sides of the war are really fed up with people coming into our city...

Explosives found on S.F. protest route By Michele R. Marcucci and Sean Holstege - STAFF WRITERS Saturday, March 22, 2003 - 200 arrested in quieter anti-war action; Molotov cocktails discovered San Francisco police arrested hundreds of people during a second day of antiwar protests Friday, and even as unrest subsided from Thursday's traffic-clogging disruptions authorities found something more ominous. At 11 a.m. Friday, police found a duffel bag containing a dozen Molotov cocktails at 11th Street, followed up by the discovery an 1 1/2hours later on Market Street of a second bag with rags and lighter fluid. The second bag...

SF Police Find Cache Of Molotov Cocktails POSTED: 1:11 p.m. PST March 21, 2003 UPDATED: 1:15 p.m. PST March 21, 2003 SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco arson investigators removed 12 Molotov-type cocktails on Friday from a backpack discovered by a groundskeeper cleaning up debris left by anti-war protesters in a downtown alley way. The investigators carefully removed the homemade devices -- consisting of old liquor bottles filled with gasoline and having a wick -- and fingerprinted them. Police said the site where the devices were found was an area near 11th and Howard that had been traversed several times by...