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Dress made of flags of nations where same-sex relations are illegal

Amsterdam Rainbow Dress
The dress in Madrid in 2018

The dress in the Netherlands in 2017

The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress is a dress made of more than 70 flags of nations where same-sex relations are illegal, commemorating LGBTQ+ victims of persecution. The dress has a diameter of 52 feet and has been displayed in San Francisco, Cape Town, and Ottawa, among other cities.

Icesis Couture and Lola Rodríguez have modeled the dress.

List of flags

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.

Row 1

Rainbow flag (Formerly Singapore)
Rainbow flag (Formerly Angola)
Uganda
Qatar

Row 5

Row 11

Row 17

Row 23

Row 31

Rainbow flag (Formerly Antigua and Barbuda)
Zimbabwe
Rainbow flag (Formerly Botswana)
Amsterdam bodice (upper)
Tanzania
Togo
Tunisia

Row 39

Myanmar
Kuwait
Iraq
Amsterdam bodice (lower)
Bangladesh
Guyana
Rainbow flag (Formerly Belize)

Row 47

Guinea
Yemen
Jamaica
Grenada
Tonga
Saudi Arabia
Eritrea
Rainbow flag (Formerly Saint Kitts and Nevis)

Row 55

Row 61

Indonesia
Barbados
Pakistan
The Gambia
Rainbow flag (Formerly Bhutan)
Rainbow flag (Formerly India)

Row 67

Row 73

Syria
Libya
Rainbow flag (Formerly Trinidad and Tobago)
Liberia
Chad

Row 78

See also

List of individual dresses

References

"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.

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