Harry Britt

And people were, you know, it was dark and people were carrying candles.

And there was Harry Britt on the corner screaming at the crowd saying, where is your anger? Where is your anger? And it came after the verdict for, you know, that Dan White got involuntary manslaughter, which was ridiculous.

But he just couldn't understand.

The injustice was so huge and so wrong.

This is what we do.

This is a Harry Britt versus, you know, the Brown-Pelosi machine

That dynamic between centrists and progressive Democrats is still shaping the party.

But to Pelosi, knowing each side of the party through and through, her body in both camps, as former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown put it, I see that as her strength.

politics in San Francisco, a fundraiser in a cabaret that caters to gays.

At this event, the candidate is gay as well, Democrat Harry Britt.

The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters.

The sign at the door reads, "We're just wild about Harry Britt."

While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco.

Liberal credentials are essential.

Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi's toughest rival.

He was soft-spoken with a serious tone, kind of an intellectual, a little socially awkward.

At this event, the candidate is gay as well.

Democrat Harry Britt.

The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters.

The sign at the door reads, We're just wild about Harry Britt.

While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco.

Liberal credentials are essential.

Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi's toughest rival.

He was soft-spoken, with a serious tone, kind of an intellectual, a little socially awkward.

And rather than violence, it was really a solemn kind of candlelit vigil that marched from what is Harvey Milk Plaza today to City Hall.

And, you know, back on that night, Harry Britt, who went on to succeed Harvey Milk in office, stood before the people of San Francisco and told the community that one day there'll be something with Harvey's name on it in San Francisco, and, and this project is really the fulfillment of that promise all these years later.

In 1985, Mayor Dianne Feinstein and the Board of Supervisors designated the intersection of Castro and Market Streets as Harvey Milk Plaza.

If you've been there, you know it's also an entrance to the Castro Muni station, and since 1997, the Castro's flagpole has proudly flown the rainbow flag that was designed by Gilbert Baker, another important San Francisco figure from queer history.

You know, good.

I mean, I think, you know, when they do a live-ish kind of event like that, you just don't know, like, how are the candidates going to react with each other? Is there going to be a disruption? You know, we did a debate with them earlier in the year and there was a huge disruption.

I think we covered a lot of territory, but, you know, I think we also, there were things we wanted to get to that we didn't get to.

But I think in general, voters got a good sense of who these two are.

You got the 30,000-foot view.

Yeah, more tame than I would have thought going into this, given just kind of the chatter, the outside noise, pressure on this race, largely tame.

Also, I kind of felt like the candidates, they both made a decision at some point where it almost felt like they've decided to kind of run this last mile by themselves.

and on their own terms.

At this event, the candidate is gay as well.

Democrat Harry Britt.

The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters.

The sign at the door reads, We're just wild about Harry Britt.

While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco.

Liberal credentials are

essential.

Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi's toughest rival.

Politics in San Francisco, a fundraiser in a cabaret that caters to gays.

At this event, the candidate is gay as well, Democrat Harry Britt.

The bar is packed with gay and lesbian supporters.

The sign at the door reads, "We're just wild about Harry Britt."

While he would be a political outsider elsewhere in the country with his progressive agenda, he fits in easily in San Francisco.

Liberal credentials are essential.

Harry Britt was a San Francisco supervisor and Nancy Pelosi's toughest rival.

He was soft-spoken with a serious tone, kind of an intellectual, a little socially awkward.

And she entered a really intense contest.

She was up against Harry Britt, who was another left-leaning candidate, and he had the backing of Harvey Milk's political movement and the very deeply organized gay community at the time, which was reeling from the AIDS epidemic.

Let's hear a clip from Britt at the time.

So I think it's legitimate for us to point out that the people who care the most about AIDS, and certainly the gay community which cares in a passionate way about AIDS, is very united behind my candidacy.

But was the gay community skeptical or behind Pelosi? How did they feel about Pelosi?

No, there was a split.

But I would say if I had to guess, I would say it was two to one for Harry Britt.

There were some more moderate folks in the gay community, maybe a little more business oriented, who supported Nancy Pelosi.