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A Massachusetts lesbian bar descended into a catty culture war and faces a potentially business-ending boycott from sudden enemies who flipped out when the owners lifted a longstanding mask mandate for just one night a week.
Greenfield's Last Ditch Bar scrapped Saturday mask requirements on Aug. 31 in a bid to boost business but the move completely backfired, sparking uproar from members of the small city's queer community.
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Some critics dramatically likened the decision to a "mass disabling event," a "eugenicist" attack and a host of other hot-button terms that escalated to threats of violence.
"I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic]," one commenter wrote on the western Massachusetts bar's post announcing the change, the Boston Globe reported.
"People like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience," wrote another, while a third said, "Just say you're being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with."
And that was all because masks were made "optional" just once a week.
Last Ditch, which opened in 2025, still requires masks all other days, even as Greenfield hasn't reported a COVID case in months.
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The mask mandate was another rule, as Last Ditch vowed ableism infringements on disabled patrons enjoying the venue was strictly barred.
That meant the face coverings were required to protect anyone who was immunocompromised. It remains unclear how anyone was expected to drink while masked.
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Management first tried to apologize for its supposedly flippant post, writing "We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us."
But that only fanned the flames because Last Ditch's post failed to include written "alt text" describing the written message for visually impaired people.
"This is not an accessible post," somebody commented. "It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality."
https://nypost.com/2026/09/22/us-news/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-nearly-bullied-out-of-town-after-lifting-mask-mandate-for-one-night/
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2026/09/22/magazine/greenfield-last-ditch-bar-backlash/
This has to be one of the funniest things ever to come from the freaks that make up the left.
If one doesn't show perfect adherence to their orthodoxy, they will destroy you.
It also shows they have to constantly have to one up each other to find, or create, the craziest and most <r-word> ideas and positions out there.
"If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without blood shed; if you will not fight when your victory is sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may even be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves." - Sir Winston Churchill
