A button on the jacket of World War II veteran Paul Goercke, chaplain at the Alexander Hamilton American Legion Post 448, is shown at their office in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2010. According to its website, the Alexander Hamilton Post 448 is the only post whose membership is predominantly Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
A neighbor watches a massive fire in San Bruno, California, Thursday, Sept. 9, 2010. Fire crews tried to douse the remnants of an enormous blaze and account for the residents of dozens of homes Friday after a gas line ruptured and an explosion ripped through a neighborhood near San Francisco, killing at least four people and likely more. (AP Photo/Michael Sah)
In this Sept. 1, 2010 photo, tourists get a view of the San Francisco skyline near Sausalito, California. Last year, more than 15 million people visited San Francisco, pumping nearly $8 billion into the city’s economy, according to the city’s Convention and Visitors Bureau. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
A one-day old flamingo chick and its father are shown at the San Francisco Zoo in San Francisco, Thursday, Aug. 26, 2010. The chick is one of the first three that have hatched in San Francisco Zoo’s Chilean flamingo colony in seven years. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
Stuart Gaffney, center, holds up a sign while celebrating the decision in the United States District Court proceedings challenging Proposition 8 outside of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco, Wednesday, Aug. 4, 2010. A federal judge has overturned California’s same-sex marriage ban in a landmark case that could eventually land before the U.S. Supreme Court. Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker made his ruling Wednesday in a lawsuit filed by two gay couples who claimed the voter-approved ban violated their civil rights. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs smiles as he uses the new iPhone during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Apple CEO Steve Jobs introduces the new iPhone 4 at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference, Monday, June 7, 2010, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
The tip of the Golden Gate bridge is seen above a blanket of fog in a view from Crissy Field in San Francisco, Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
President Barack Obama travels in a motorcade down California Street in San Francisco, California, Tuesday, May 25, 2010, during a SF Bay Area visit to attend a pair of fundraisers with Sen. Barbara Boxer. (AP Photo/Ron Lewis)
A tool shed originally built by prisoners and recently restored sits above one of the many gardens on Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Thursday, Feb. 4, 2010. Scoured by wind and steeped in criminal history, Alcatraz has a forbidding face. But look a little closer and you see a gentler side to this old fortress, the gleam of flowers blooming brightly on the island’s rocky slopes. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
Elizabeth Chase, left and Kate Baldridge, of Fresno, California, an engaged same-sex couple hoping to marry, listen to a rally outside of the federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage got under way Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
Lesbian couple Shelly Bailes, left, Ellen Pontac, right, who were married in 2008, laugh during a rally in front of a federal courthouse in San Francisco, Monday, Jan. 11, 2010. The first federal trial to determine if the U.S. Constitution prohibits states from outlawing same-sex marriage gets under way in San Francisco on Monday, and the two gay couples on whose behalf the case was brought will be among the first witnesses. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)
Traffic is shown heading west to San Francisco on the Bay Bridge in Yerba Buena Island, Monday, Nov. 2, 2009. Nearly a week of frustration ended for commuters when the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge reopened Monday following emergency repairs. Traffic began moving across the span after two rods and a crossbar were replaced and passed vibration and other tests, said Bart Ney, a spokesman for the state transportation department. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)




