Sodomites stole it first from God. It was the symbol of his promise to Noah that he'd never flood the earth again due to wickedness until the time came that the evils of mankind grew to the level of that in Noah's (or Lot's) day; then he'd flood it with fire and revoke the bow from the sky a year prior.

This is an illustration to the Victor Pelevin's book "iPhuck".

Specifically for the chunk about "Feat number 12. Putin stealing rainbow from faggots" - an unknown piece of art, fresco, found by robot-author in distant future.

IDK if there exists English translation of that book, but if it is, I highly recommend it to read, as all V. Pelevin books. He is a real genius of modern Russian literature.

Awful (as usual) google translation of that text chunk with my small fixes to preserve sense and meaning:

"Rainbow is one of the highest sacred symbols created by nature itself, from the same category as the sun and the moon ... What is a rainbow? Clear white light, decaying into its components. The genome of the day. An extremely wide and universal code, a whole aircraft carrier of meanings, simultaneously accommodating a huge number of such one-color references as communism, islam, orange revolution, and so on. The question is, by what right is the entire existing color library usurped - and put in accordance with such a narrow and specific field of human experience as deviant recreational sex and identity built on its basis? Is something in homosexual or transgender practices (of course, free from narcotic influences) leads to the experience of the rainbow colors? For the exhaustive color representation of the LGBT experience, the brown area of ​​the spectrum with interspersed pink and red would be enough. Maybe we are talking about two or three shades, but hands away from green and purple! We see that the question of revising the results of symbolic privatization was posed by an unknown artist extremely timely and acutely ... " - the museum caretaker fell silent.

"Why does it stealing, but not robbing?" - asked Mara.

"This is just very accurate. Say “robbing” - and the connotations of violence and enmity will immediately appear. But in this act of cultural redistribution there is no hatred of the LGBT community, here we are only talking about the restoration of symbolic justice. Therefore, “stealing” is more appropriate. Hercules, after all, could also first break the skull of Diomede. But no, he went to hardships, refused himself in a sleep - and steal his horses. And only then, when Diomede, to his misfortune, chased him ..." - the caretaker looked at the fresco again.

“The stealing is more plastic", she said. - "It is ancient, more authentic. There is no bloodthirstiness in it ... it's like Soft Power "

Nice! Where's his bear?