Go-Go's singer Belinda Carlisle has
said she was “shocked” to find out her son James Duke Mason is
gay.
“It was shocking,” Carlisle
said in a videotaped conversation with her son. “Even though,
as you know, my friends, most of them are gay and lesbian.”
Mason, 19, an actor who appeared in
last year's What Happens Next, recently launched a video
campaign urging gay actors to leave the closet. So far, actors Chad
Allen, Nicholas
Downs and Mike
Manning have recorded videos in support of Mason's Trailblazers
campaign.
When Mason asked if his mother had
seriously contemplated that her son might be gay, Carlisle responded,
“Yeah, but when you actually said it, it was still shocking. Even
though I still had sort of hints along the way. Even though, really
at the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. But, I mean, it's
still shocking.”
Later on, Carlisle said she cannot
understand how a parent could reject his or her child for being gay.
“It's your flesh and blood,” she
said. “That's your baby.”
Last year, Carlisle told gay glossy
The Advocate that she
backs gay marriage for her son.