Neil Patrick Harris no longer walks [the red carpet] alone...

I'm so glad for AfterElton.com and the speed in which the site posts transcripts of some interviews of interest. Neil Patrick Harris visited Ellen DeGeneres' chat show today and talked about attending the Emmys this year, not only as a nominee, but as an out actor who will be making his way down the red carpet of the Shrine Auditorium with boyfriend David Burka.
Ellen: That's great, this is the first time that you can actually ... did you go together before and walk in separately? Or how did you do that?
NPH: [grimaces] Yeeeeeeeah, I don't know. Yeah. We would arrive together and he went ahead and I did the photos. It wasn't this [makes head movement as if dodging] sneaky thing that we were trying to play. He's an actor in his own right. I like to be there for work and am not really as a political kind of guy. But now we can smile together.
Ellen: That's great. I think that's great.
The "How I Met Your Mother" star wanted to know how Ellen handled it at first.
Ellen:"... I would go and my girlfriend would go in separately and I would be taking pictures alone. I look at it as, whoever you go with ... you go with your spouse or your husband or your wife, or your boyfriend or your girlfriend. So for me, I'm just happy I get to walk down with Portia and take pictures and not look at it as anything to be ashamed of."
NPH: Absolutely.