Her demeanor may scream “Tough! Militant! Dyke!”, but Rayna’s insides are gooey and pink. Her journal entries rhyme. And the truth is, she really wants to go to the prom.

Camouflage Pink is not another coming out story.
It’s a heartfelt adventure into the mind of a 17-year-old girl whose true feelings conflict with the image she projects in school. Though Rayna lectures her friend Dill about resisting the “conformist hetero institution” that is the prom, her own strict definition of a “dyke identity” is more conformist. Rayna desperately needs to “come out,” not to realize her sexual desire, but to explore her longing for activities she automatically rejects as “mainstream.” As she negotiates these conflicting aspects of her identity, Rayna starts to get everything she wants: A closer friendship. A budding romance.
And a pink prom dress.

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