and the New York Rangers of enabling an anti-gay culture at Rangers games, reports The New York Times. One longtime season-ticket holder who is regularly broadcast on the Garden’s jumbo screen dancing to energize the crowd is often taunted as “Homo Larry.” Fans told the Times about an incident not long ago when the New York City Gay Hockey Association, a recreational league, was booed after its name flashed briefly across the jumbo screen. “If I take a friend who is also gay who, for lack of a better term, is not as masculine, I’m always sitting there a little tense. Like, is somebody going to say something to us? And it’s made it not quite as fun as it used to be,” said Ray Stankes, 50, who is gay. He canceled his season tickets after being a 25-year season-ticket holder. Kevin Jennings, executive director of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network, a nonprofit group that promotes tolerance of gays and lesbians, and Jeff Kagan, the director of the gay hockey league, wrote to Rangers General Manager Glen Sather in November and asked him to create a fan-education program that denounces anti-gay remarks. Read how one group’s anti-gay efforts backfired against Ford Motor Co., and learn all about the preferences of the LGBT market and how best to reach them.
, said the marketing of the hospital “cheapens and denigrates the whole field of psychology.” But Rebecca Jordan, whose family owns the hospital, replied, “This part of history is vital, and you cannot bury what you don’t like,” reports the AP. “Should we take down the Holocaust museum? Should we completely deny all that happened because it’s not favorable? Because it might hurt a few feelings?” After struggling to find a suitable, sustainable use, the state sold it at auction last summer for $1.5 million to

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