At the media event to announce the release of Raising the Rainbow Banner, for example, Mickey Chen outed novelist Pai Hsien-yung and choreographer Lin Hwai-min. Chen sparked a round of intense media scrutiny by criticizing these two big cultural celebrities, saying that they had not done enough for Taiwan's gay rights movement.
如《揚起彩虹旗》新書發表會上，陳俊志將作家白先勇與舞蹈家林懷民強迫出櫃，並責怪他們未曾為台灣同志運動盡心盡力，引起國內各大媒體報導。