This Lesbian Bar Made Masks Optional On Saturdays. All Hell Broke Loose.
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What sparked the controversy at the lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts?
I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ableists. People like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience. Just say you're being complicit in a mask disabling event and get it over with. These are all comments that an ultra-loke lesbian bar in Massachusetts received, and let me tell you why. Now they've been requiring masks since 2020. It's now 2026, and they're going belly up. They can barely pay their rents. Now in order to bring in some extra revenue, they decided, let's do one mask optional event on Saturday night. This opened them up to a massive storm of outrage from the queer, immunocompromised lesbian community in Massachusetts.
And they've since apologized. But the story gets crazier. Let's talk about it. Yeah, you
better Yeah you better.
Guys, before we get into today's video, please consider liking and subscribing. Today we're gonna be reacting to a story out of the Boston Globe. Now, the headline is: A Western Mass Lesbian Bar required KN95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose. Last Ditch Bar in Greenfield wanted to build community, they got a firestorm instead. Now it says the August 31st Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar, an arts venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeats teasing a new DJ lineup. And a volunteer meetup, but partway down the RaboQ'd post labeled updates was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley City and beyond. Now the sentence reads It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas that we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional.
Now, previously, patrons at this bar were required to wear a well fitted KN95 mask or better, and now they were opening up this mask. Mask optional event, which led to some of the comments that I read in the intro. But let's read a few more comments that this bar received. Bad decision all around. It feels wildly insensitive and dismissive. I will continue to navigate feeling excluded by a large portion of the W mask queer community, as I have been for many years now. Masking isn't just for disabled folks, everyone is at risk. Masking is community care. This establishment apparently is not. People like you kill disabled folks. People in the name of your own leisure and convenience. How could we consider you community if you act in a way that is killing us?
If you want to pander to capitalism and white supremacy, go right ahead. You wouldn't be the first white and white adjacent people in history to do so. If you're only concerned with protecting yourself at the cost of death for others, you are no better than a fascist. And guys, there are so, so many more. I mean hundreds of comments on this post. Now the article writes the people running The bar were accused of being ableist eugenicists, even for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters considered an ongoing pandemic. Even though Greenfield, this area, hasn't reported any COVID cases in more than two months. Now, two days later, of course, what happens is what always happens. Last ditch, this bar issues an apology.
They say, quote, We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most. Intersectional of us. We understand everyone faces different intersections, and we are always working to consider all needs fully. And of course, this is reminiscent of those democratic socialist meetings where people are always calling a point of privilege or pulling their equity cards, which is essentially where you can complain about where somebody has offended you or done something wrong. And then the meeting stops then and there to address you in all of your concerns, which, how you could possibly do that if you're accounting for all of these different intersections. Is beyond me, and I think this bar is finally learning their lesson.
You cannot cater to everyone at all times. Now the story gets even crazier.
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
What sparked the controversy at the lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts?
0:00–4:20
2
How did the bar’s mask‑optional Saturday policy ignite outrage among the queer and immunocompromised community?
4:20–6:56
3
What were the most vocal comments and accusations made against the bar after the policy change?
6:56–10:21
4
How did the owners respond with an apology and what criticisms followed it?
10:21–19:21
Speakers
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