Lest you wonder whether it has been an advantage, or a disadvantage, to be openly gay in the world of pop culture these days, consider the case of Gregg Araki. Araki is one of the premier homosexual writer-directors of the day, with highly praised examinations of gay life ranging from the euphoniously titled All F—ed Up (the dashes are part of the title) to The Doom Generation.
Araki is what Entertainment Weekly likes to call “cutting-edge,” so his latest move may portend something very serious. It seems that Araki is now dating . . . a woman! And not just any woman either. To quote from Variety: ” Offscreen, the independent film world is buzzing about director Gregg Araki’s shift in sexual orientation. . . . Araki has always been heralded as one of the most important voices in independent gay cinema. So his involvement with ‘Beverly Hills 90210’ starlet Kathleen Robertson [has] set tongues wagging.”
Kathleen Robertson plays Claire, the supposedly brilliant college- president’s daughter with a wild streak. She appears in Araki’s new movie, Nowhere, and apparently Cupid’s arrow found an unlikely target. Or has Araki decided that heterosexuality is the wave of the future?
