Amsterdam Rainbow Dress
The dress in Madrid in 2018 |
The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress is a dress made of more than 70 flags of nations where same-sex relations are illegal,[1] commemorating LGBTQ+ 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[6], Lola Rodríguez[7], and Valentijn de Hingh[8] have modeled the dress.
List of flags
The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress in its current form consists of 66 national flags, 4 Amsterdam city flags, and 11 rainbow flags which represents countries whose flag has been formerly represented in this dress but have since adopted LGBTQIA+ legislation.[9]
Row 1
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Singapore)
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Angola)
- Uganda
- Qatar
Row 5
Row 11
Row 17
Row 23
- Papua New Guinea
- Sudan
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Cook Islands)
- United Arab Emirates
- Maldives
- Eswatini
- Brunei
Row 31
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Antigua and Barbuda)
- Zimbabwe
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Botswana)
- Amsterdam bodice (upper)
- Tanzania
- Togo
- Tunisia
Row 39
Row 47
- Guinea
- Yemen
- Jamaica
- Grenada
- Tonga
- Saudi Arabia
- Eritrea
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Saint Kitts and Nevis)
Row 55
Row 61
Row 67
Row 73
- Syria
- Libya
- Rainbow flag (Formerly Trinidad and Tobago)
- Liberia
- Chad
Row 78
See also
References
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- ^ "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.
- ^ Abma, Sandra (8 December 2021). "Sartorial symbol of LGBTQ persecution arrives in Ottawa-Gatineau". Retrieved 2 June 2025.
- ^ "International Transgender day of Remembrance". Amsterdam Rainbow Dress. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "Amsterdam Rainbow Dress". British Asian LGBTI. 2017-05-16. Retrieved 2025-06-02.
- ^ "List of Countries". Amsterdam Rainbow Dress Foundation. Retrieved 10 July 2023.