Rainbow Project is proud to announce the 2009 Rainbow Book List, a joint undertaking of the American Library Association’s Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgendered Round Table and Social Responsibilities Round Table. Marcus Ewert and Rex Ray will discuss and read from "10,000 Dresses." 7:30 p.m.
Obama could always look out onto the entire world." "If we were to choose one of the dresses from the book, it would have to be the dress made of windows." The gown features vistas of the Pyramids of Egypt and the Great Wall of China. "Bailey has already been giving the inaugural dress question a lot of thought," Ewert said. With the presidential inauguration just weeks away, we had to ask: Which of Bailey's dream dresses would best suit that other optimistic Capricorn - the new first lady?
The luminous little book they made together comes out this month from Seven Stories Press. To bring Bailey to life in illustrations, Ewert turned to San Francisco artist Rex Ray, who is known for his graphic design, fine art and album covers. Bailey feels like a girl, though her parents keep insisting otherwise. He found the perfect gender-neutral name, Bailey, in a baby-naming book. His protagonist is a child who dreams about climbing a staircase lined with magical dresses. So I asked myself - what would really interest you?" It didn't take long before the answer dawned on him, in Technicolor: "You want a dress made out of solid gold, or chocolate, or flowers. "Originally, the book was written for a child who had an uncle or an aunt who was transitioning," he says.
Getting the story right took a couple of tries. He picked up a thread from Piki and Poko, a Web cartoon he co-created that has a strong transgender character, someone whose self-identification doesn't match his assigned sex. "So I wrote the first draft of a transgender book for kids." I wanted to write a fairy tale," says Ewert. "I was sick and tired of reading from my memoir.
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