"}\u201cChina produces more rainbow flags than anyone. My nightmare is there is a factory with nearly slave labor, forced to live within the factory complex and get up every morning and have to churn out more and more rainbow tchotchkes.\u201d He says he didn\u2019t create the rainbow flag in order for others to profit off of \u201crainbow junk\u201d.
He is horrified by some of the things he has seen. He says, \u201cWalking down Castro Street, I can\u2019t pay my rent, but I see rainbow dildos in the shop windows and rainbow keychains, rainbow rings, rainbow candles and so on.\u201d He said it is similar to when the best music ends up as elevator music. He is gratified that the power of the rainbow caught on as rings, but that power can be diluted by over-commercialization.\u201d \u00a0