Teen superstar Zac Efron is featured on the January/February 2008 cover of Details Magazine and in the accompanying interview the heartthrob insists that gay rumors doesn’t scare him at all.

Here’s an excerpt from Zac’s interview with Details Magazine’s Simon Dumenco:
“Even when I bring up notorious “Queen of Mean” gossip blogger Perez Hilton, who is obsessed with insinuating that Efron—whom he’s nicknamed “Zacquisha”—is gay, Efron’s response is almost surreally nice: “I know it’s very addictive to read that kind of stuff. It’s entertainment. Perez has obviously struck a chord in the public eye. He’s doing something right. That deserves admiration—I think he does a great job. Um—” He pauses for a moment, then adds, “Honestly, if the worst he can say about me is that I’m gay, then I think I’ll be fine. I can handle it.”

“Has he met Perez? “No, I haven’t yet. But I look forward to it,” he says, laughing. “I think it’ll be a fun conversation.”
Efron’s soft-and-cuddly nice-guy veneer, it turns out, may actually be bulletproof armor.”