Amsterdam Rainbow Dress
Appearance
The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress is a dress made of more than 70 flags of nations where same-sex relations are illegal,[1] commemorating LGBT+ victims of persecution. The dress has a diameter of 52 feet and has been displayed in San Francisco,[2][3] Cape Town,[4] and Ottawa,[5] among other cities.
Icesis Couture and Lola Rodríguez have modeled the dress.
List of flags[edit]
The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress in its current form consists of 68 national flags, 4 Amsterdam city flags, and 9 rainbow flags which represents countries whose flag has been formerly represented in this dress but have since adopted LGBTQIA+ legislation.[6]
Row 1[edit]
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Singapore)
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Angola)
- Uganda
- Qatar
Row 5[edit]
Row 11[edit]
Row 17[edit]
Row 23[edit]
- Papua New Guinea
- Sudan
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Cook Islands
- United Arab Emirates
- Maldives
- Eswatini
- Brunei
Row 31[edit]
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Antigua and Barbuda)
- Zimbabwe
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Botswana)
- Amsterdam bodice (upper)
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
Row 39[edit]
Row 47[edit]
- Guinea
- Yemen
- Jamaica
- Grenada
- Tonga
- Saudi Arabia
- Eritrea
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Row 55[edit]
Row 61[edit]
Row 67[edit]
Row 73[edit]
- Syria
- Libya
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Trinidad and Tobago)
- Liberia
- Chad
Row 78[edit]
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "The 'Amsterdam Rainbow Dress' is made from flags of 72 countries that outlaw homosexuality". gaystarnews.com. 8 August 2016. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ "Amsterdam rainbow dress displayed at San Francisco City Hall - ABC7 San Francisco". abc7news.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ "Amsterdam rainbow dress displayed at San Francisco City Hall - ABC11 Raleigh-Durham". abc11.com. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ "Zeitz MOCAA weaves local lives into the global fabric o..." dailymaverick.co.za. 14 December 2018. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ "Amsterdam Rainbow Dress makes Canadian début in the capital region". Ottawa Citizen. Archived from the original on 2021-12-10. Retrieved 2021-12-10.
- ^ "List of Countries". Amsterdam Rainbow Dress Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2023.