Greenfield

I don't understand what they're talking about.

Next story takes us to Greenfield, Massachusetts, not Boston, folks.

Yeah, Boston's got enough to answer for without adopting every bar west of Worcester.

But anyway, this place is called Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue.

an all-out internal war within the mask-wearing lesbian community in Western Massachusetts, and has provided us with one of the best news stories of 2026.

Lesbian Bar in Greenfield eased its mask-mandated decision that has splintered the queer community in the city.

Bar goes by the name Last Ditch.

It's a lesbian bar in Western Massachusetts, which, by the way, is the most insane part of America, with the most insane people.

It could be both things.

You're really not reading into it.

There hasn't been a COVID case in Greenfield, Massachusetts in over three months.

The people running the bar were accused of being ableist, eugenicist even.

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 the Saturday mask requirement on August 31st to boost their business, but the move backfired.

sparking uproar from the members of the city's small queer community.

Now, just think about this for a second.

Another commenter said, people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience.

Just say you're being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with.

First of all, there hasn't been a COVID case in Greenfield reported in months and months and months.

COVID is now a cold.

So here we go.

The August 31st Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup.

But partway down, the rainbow-hued post labeled, Updates, was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in this small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.

It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional, wrote Last Dig.

The people running the bar were accused of being ableist.

eugenicist even, for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters considered an ongoing pandemic.

Greenfield hasn't reported any COVID cases in more than two months.

Two days later, Last Ditch posted an apology.

Let's read it.

The August 31st Instagram post from Last Ditch Bar and Arts Venue, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, was upbeat, teasing a new DJ lineup and a volunteer meetup.

But partway down the rainbow-hued post labeled updates was a sentence that would splinter the queer community in the small Pioneer Valley city and beyond.

it is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening saturday nights as mask optional wrote last ditch previously patrons were required to wear a well-fitted k995 mask or better at all times again which is just in and of itself insane insane in 2026 you still have not only a mask mandate but a mask mandate that requires k95 but also you're a bar like presumably people are going to need to take their mass off to drink anyway if you're this concerned about coven why are you going to a bar it's just yeah nothing like being politically lesbian and so that's the thing When it comes to a solid amount of quote-unquote lesbians today, I do think that identification is socially and politically motivated more often than a man being gay.

The thread grew to 442 comments, some supportive, but many furious.

The people running the bar were accused of being ableist, eugenicist even, for relaxing their signature policy in the face of what commenters consider an ongoing pandemic.

Should be noted, Greenfield hasn't reported any COVID cases in more than two months.

Okay, so not only, like, not only is no one dying from COVID anymore, they're not even being reported cases where they live.

It was from the Boston Globe, but the Boston Globe has a scripture behind it, which is stupid.

Anyway, well, there's a there's a lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts that is receiving major backlash right now from very specific people in the sense that.

So up until this point, they have had an N95 mask mandate to go to the bar.

That sounds like

Okay.

Dude, it's Greenfield, Massachusetts police.

There's three guys.

You bang on the door, it opens, the smell hits you.