Cock or Not?: Neil Patrick Harris

My favorite celeb gossip blogger, PerezHilton.com, has been like a man on a mission all week, outing former Doogie Howser stud and Broadway sensation, Neil Patrick Harris. It's one thing to just not talk about your sexuality, but these days Harris is vehemently denying it! So chorus boys are coming out to the background to sing about Harris's dalliances.

I met Neil Patrick Harris at an Actor's Fund Benefit a few years back. It was only a few months after having seen him perform Cabaret on Broadway. When I met him, I told him I had loved him in the show and that I felt he made the role his own. He seemed disinterested, like he'd heard it all before, hardly even turning his head in my direction or thanking me for the kind words -- until I mentioned that I had seen him in the middle of the blizzard and that I loved how he changed the lyrics in "Wilkommen" to: "Outside! It is a blizzard!" I don't know if it was that I had proven I'd seen him in the show or what, but he suddenly seemed a lot more friendly! All smiles and wanting to talk about his performance.

For about 30 seconds.

Until I jokingly said, laughing all the way, "Hey, can I take a picture with you so I can tell all my friends that you're my boyfriend?"

The smile dropped. He bit the inside of his lower lip and gazed upon my frail body with a look of intense anger. "NO!" he exclaimed. "Uh... no. Because that would be untrue."

He looked so angry, I no longer even wanted a picture with him. The whole conversation had just been like bi-polar central! I felt like I was in an episode of The Twilight Zone and was starting regret that I hadn't struck up a conversation with Burt Reynolds instead, despite the bad fake tan.

Anyway, at the time I thought Neil Patrick Harris was homophobic. Now it turns out he's just fucking gay and closeted, I guess. But then, isn't that always the way?

POST SCRIPT: Oddly enough, just hours after writing this, Neil informed his publicist he could stop denying the rumors and came out to the world! Good for him. Pressured into it or not, it was the right thing to do.