The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress is a work of art in the shape of a dress, with the aim of encouraging debate and awareness about inclusion and equal rights throughout the planet. It is a monumental dress comprised of the 68* flags of countries where being LGBTIQ+ is punishable by law, including eight countries in which homosexual acts can result in the death penalty. The bodice of the dress is made from the Amsterdam city flag.
Currently the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress consists of the following flags:
Row 1:
(1) Rainbow Flag formerly Singapore [expand title=”(2)Rainbow Flag formerly Angola“]Angola approved a new penal code, which does not outlaw consenting same-sex sexual activity since January 2019[/expand] (3) Uganda (4) Qatar
Row 5:
(5) Mauritius (6) Comoros (7) Ghana (8) Turkmenistan (9) Cameroon (10) Palestine
Row 11:
(11) Namibia (12) Egypt (13) Afghanistan (14) Morocco (15) Dominica (16) Senegal
Row 17:
(17) Malawi (18) Samoa (19) Kenya (20) Malaysia (21) Uzbekistan (22) Ethiopia
Row 23:
(23) Papua New Guinea (24) Sudan (25) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (26) Cook Islands (27) United Arab Emirates (28) Maldives (29) Swaziland (30) Brunei
Row 31:
(31) Rainbow Flag formerly Antigua and Bermuda (32) Zimbabwe [expand title=”(33) Rainbow Flag formerly Botswana“]Botswana has changed it’s legislation on consensual sex between same-sex partners since June 2019 [/expand] (34) Amsterdam *bodice (35) Amsterdam *bodice (36) Tanzania (37) Togo (38) Tunisia
Row 39:
(39) Myanmar (40) Kuwait [expand title=”(41) Iraq”]no official anti-LGBT legislation, however according to ILGA fundamentalist groups are executing Sharia-based punishments[/expand](42) Amsterdam *bodice (43) Amsterdam *bodice (44) Bangladesh (45) Guyana [expand title=”(46) Rainbow flag formerly Belize“]Belize has changed it’s legislation on consensual sex between same-sex partners in 2016, and was the first flag to be removed from the Amsterdam Rainbow Dress[/expand]
Row 47:
(47) Guinea (48) Yemen (49) Jamaica (50) Grenada (51) Tonga (52) Saudi Arabia (53) Eritrea (54) (54)Rainbow Flag formerly Saint Kitss and Nevis
Row 55:
(55) Oman (56) Iran (57) Kiribati (58) Tuvalu (59) Lebanon (60) Nigeria
Row 61:
(61) Indonesia (62) Barbados (63) Pakistan (64) Gambia (65) Rainbow Flag formerly Bhutan [expand title=”(66) Rainbow Flag formerly India“]India has changed it’s legislation on consensual sex between same-sex partners on September 6th 2018[/expand]
Row 67:
(67) Algeria (68) Burundi (69) Solomon Islands (70) Sierra Leone (71) Mauritania (72) Saint Lucia
Row 73:
(73) Syria (74) Libya [expand title=”(75) Rainbow Flag formerly Trinidad and Tobago“]Trinidad and Tobago declared the law unconstitutional, as it infringed on the rights of LGBT citizens and criminalised consensual sexual acts between adults on April 2018.[/expand] (76) Liberia (77) Chad
Row 78:
(78) South Sudan (79) Zambia (80) Somalia (81) Sri Lanka
* List of countries as comprised by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association (ILGA). The Amsterdam Rainbow Dress in its current form consists of 68 national flags, 9 rainbow flags and 4 Amsterdam city flags.