Neil patrick harris is gay
Neil Patrick Harris has decided to tell the world he's gay.
"(I) am quite proud to tell that I am a very content gay dude living my life to the fullest," Harris tells People magazine's Web site.
The 33-year-old actor said he decided to reveal his sexuality to end "speculation and interest in my private life and relationships."
Harris may be referring to an Oct. 23 item on the Web site Canada.com that claimed he had helped his "longtime sweetheart," actor David Burtka, land a part on his hit CBS sitcom "How I Met Your Mother."
That was followed by an unconfirmed state Nov. 1 that a publicist for Harris said the actor is "not of that persuasion."
Perez Hilton, Defamer.com and other gossip blogs jumped on the topic, eager to "out" the actor.
Hilton, who is openly same-sex attracted, counts Harris' coming out as a victory. "We are so proud (despite the naysayers) in having a hand in bringing about change," writes the self-defined "Queen Of All Media," using the royal "we."
Harris rose to fame on TV as a teen, playing the namesake doctor on the series "Doogie Howser, M.D."
He plays the womanizing Barney Stinson on the CBS show "How I Met Your Mother."
High-Wire Act
Neil Patrick Harris is kissing the actress Cobie Smulders. It’s an intimate kiss, eyes closed, complete with shallow moans.
The pair accept on a Recent York City stoop, on the Los Angeles set of the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, which returns to the air next Monday. It’s a stylish, late-summer night. “It feels like Recent York weather,” says Josh Radnor, who plays Ted, the nice-guy lead, as they prep the next take. The show is by design Ted’s story, told to his children, but this season the wonderful romance belongs to his friend Barney, played by Harris. Four seasons ago, Barney was a mere comic sidekick, but Harris’s show has turned him into a larger-than-life figure, a suit-fetishizing horndog whose catchphrases (“Legen—wait for it!—dary”) are printed all over CBS swag and who even has his retain spin-off book, The Bro Code. Now he’s moving into deeper waters, struggling with what it might mean to have more than just another one-night stand. In the scene they’re filming, Barney is trying to behave favor a boyfriend—learning, love Pinocchio, to be a real boy.
Again and again, the actors kiss. A writer adds a punch line about breasts pointing two different ways,
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Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka have been together for 17 years. Here's a timeline of their relationship.
Early 2000s: Harris met Burtka met through a mutual friend.
The pair co-penned a 2012 essay about their relationship for Out magazine, in which Harris wrote about his first impression of Burtka.
"I ran into my friend Kate one day and she was with this brooding, James Dean–type guy in a leather jacket who gave me the top nod and then turned away," he wrote. "I assumed he was Kate's boyfriend and said, 'Nicely done.' And she said, 'David? He's not playing on my team, but he has a boyfriend.'"
In the same piece, Burtka added that his long-distance relationship at the second "was sort of on the rocks."
The two hung out for the first time at an "American Idol" viewing party thrown by a mutual acquaintance, and Harris wrote that he "couldn't take my eyes off" Burtka.
April 2004: The pair went to the movies for their first date.
Harris and Burtka first spent time hanging out with each other platonically.
"We began hanging out with other people, and we had a lunch or so, but nothing romantic," Burtka wrote for Out. "I thought he was adorable, though, with th
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Oct. 30, 2013— -- intro: While it may seem there's never been a better time for stars to come out of the closet, Neil Patrick Harris cautions that the process remains extremely personal.
"It's a super-individual thing," the "How I Met Your Mother" star told HuffPost Live Monday. "I don't think (coming out) in an exploitative way makes sense. I just feel like that whole world is very personal."
"Here's a good analogy -- if you're going to jump into the pool and you're not sure how to swim, it's probably not so powerful to just push someone into the pool," he said.
Harris went public with his sexuality in 2006 in part because of his budding relationship with now-partner David Burtka.
"For me, I fell in value with a dude and started spending all my time with him. And therefore, you don't need to be suppressive of that," Harris said. "I didn't want to disrespect David. I didn't wish to make David notice like he didn't be in my life, and at the same hour I didn't want David's identity to be, 'The guy th