TAYLOR LAUTNER GAY?

Is Taylor Lautner gay?  He is if you believe a 2012 People Magazine cover leaked across the Internet yesterday.

The January 7, 2012, issue features the muscled “Twilight” star on the cover entitled “OUT & PROUD,” with Lautner quoted as saying that he’s “more liberated, and happier than I’ve ever been” after finally announcing his homosexuality.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons tweeted his support, saying he was “proud of Taylor Lautner for his bravery and his courage,” to come out at the height of his career.

But not so fast Russell. As it turns out, the leaked magazine cover outing Lautner is actually nothing more than a semi-convincing Photoshop job.

The doctored cover is “absolutely fake,” a rep for People Magazine said.

And with those words went the hopes and dreams of thousands of disappointed gay men throughout America!