The Bay Area Reporter. He passed at the Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.Britt's death was confirmed Wednesday by former San Francisco supervisor and state Assemblyman Tom Ammiano. "It is with great sadness I report the death of Harry Britt.
He was a champion and a friend. Rest in power comrade," Ammiano wrote on Facebook.After the assassination of Harvey Milk, Britt was appointed to fill the late politician's seat on San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1979 by then-mayor Dianne Feinstein.
He served until 1993 and was the board's president from 1989 to 1990.During this time, Britt was a pioneering progressive in S.F.