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"Neil Patrick Harris has explained why he came out as gay. The How I Met Your Mother star came out of the closet back in 2006 with a public statement, in which he said he was &amp;quot;a very content gay man living [his] life to the fullest&amp;quot;.  &amp;gt; Neil Patrick Harris: &amp;#039;I wouldn&amp;#039;t out another actor&amp;#039; Harris has now opened up to The Huffington Post about publicly acknowledging his sexuality. &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t think doing it in an exploitative way makes sense. I just feel like that whole world is very personal,&amp;quot; he explained. The actor went on to say: &amp;quot;For me, I fell in love with a dude and started spending all my time with him. And therefore, you don&amp;#039;t want to be suppressive of that. &amp;quot;As I started working more frequently, with more eyes on us, I figured that... [coming out] was inevitability and the opposite would be, again, suppressive.&amp;quot; Harris also stressed that he wanted to be open about his sexuality so as not to &amp;quot;disrespect&amp;quot; his partner David Burtka.  &amp;quot;I didn&amp;#039;t want to make David feel like he didn&amp;#039;t exist in my life and at the same time I didn&amp;#039;t want David&amp;#039;s identity to be &amp;#039;the guy that&amp;#039;s dating me&amp;#039;. It&amp;#039;s a very individual thing&amp;#039;,&amp;quot; he recalled. Harris and Burtka announced their engagement in July, after the US Supreme Court overturned the Defence of Marriage Act (DOMA). View all of today&amp;#039;s best celebrity pictures:  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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