Profile (GLBTQ: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, & Queer Culture)
"Gregg Araki's films are direct responses to the 'institutionalized homophobia' of media, politicians, and cultural watchdogs. The poster boy of radical and militant queer cinema, Araki disdains the ghettoizing label of 'gay filmmaker' and denies being part of the New Queer Cinema."
Fan site billed as "the unofficial gateway to information on filmmaker Gregg Araki". Includes a filmography, directory of interviews, Frequently Asked Questions, and related links.
Excerpt: "Listening to the short, pumped-up filmmaker speak is to hear an intelligent, articulate variant of a recognisable southern Californian type: the lilting voice that moves toward a question mark even when the sentence is not interrogative, the 'likes' and 'uhs,' the too-cool bits of babble. Before moving to Los Angeles to study film production at the University of Southern California, Araki was raised in a Japanese-American family in staid Santa Barbara, with 'total middle-class suburban roots, like Burbank, tract houses'. His dad was a blue-collar worker in a nursery, his mother a bookkeeper in an ophthalmologist's office."