Amsterdam Rainbow Dress
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![]() The dress in Madrid in 2018 |
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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.