I read in passing that the Detroit Pistons have decided to not offer a contract to Jason Collins, the center who came out as gay earlier this year. I’m sure if he’s not signed there will be stories about how he’s been shunned because other players are uncomfortable with a gay man in the locker room. That seems ridiculous. Collins did a great service by coming out, cracking a facade, and removing a stigma for gay kids. But I would think it’s a non-issue in the clubhouse. The NBA is probably just as bisexual as Hollywood or the rap world, especially since there’s so much crossover between those industries and basketball. Sports is show business today, and entertainment has always been more fluid sexually. During the Collins story, we lazily bought this image of the solitary gay athlete in a sea of straight ones. That’s likely very untrue.•