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Title: Freedom Lights artifact
Dates: 1993
Collection Number: 2024-06
Creator/Collector:
Extent: 1 linear foot (1 oversized box)
Repository:
GLBT Historical Society
San Francisco, California 94103
Abstract: A set of Freedom Lights by Don’t Panic! Designs, circa 1993. These are Christmas lights sold as “The First Gay Christmas Lights”
with “holiday lights in the colors of the gay flag.” The artifact includes the original box and light set. The box notes that
the concept is by Skyler Thomas and Marty Finkelstein; Design by Laura Debole.
Language of Material: English
Collection is open for research.
All requests for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the GLBT
Historical Society Archivist. Permission for reproductions and/or permission to publish or quote from material is given on
behalf of the GLBT Historical Society as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use
requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
[Identification of item]. Freedom Lights artifact. Collection Number: 2024-06. GLBT Historical Society
Gift of Jayne E. Rauser, January 2024.
Scope and Content of Collection
A set of Freedom Lights by Don’t Panic! Designs, circa 1993. These are Christmas lights sold as “The First Gay Christmas Lights”
with “holiday lights in the colors of the gay flag.” The artifact includes the original box and light set. The box notes that
the concept is by Skyler Thomas and Marty Finkelstein; Design by Laura Debole.