Lesbian Bar in Greenfield, MA, Sparks Outrage From Patrons by Relaxing Mask Mandate
“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience”
A lesbian bar in Greenfield, MA, called ‘The Last Ditch’ is sparking unhinged anger from its customers for relaxing a mask mandate one night a week on Saturdays. At all other times, the establishment requires patrons to wear N95 masks, but business has been slow, and management was looking for a way to bring in more people.
For those not from New England, Greenfield is a city in western MA, about a half-hour north of Amherst and the town of Northampton, which is known for its sizable lesbian community.
The Boston Globe story about what is happening at the bar reads like bad satire:
A Western Mass. lesbian bar required KN-95 masks. When it changed the rules, all hell broke loose.
The August 31 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 Ditch.
Previously, patrons were required to wear a well-fitted KN-95 mask “or better” at all times.
The new policy was not received with love.
“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” wrote one commenter.
“people like you kill disabled people in the name of your own leisure and convenience,” posted another.
“I hope your venue gets firebombed for robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans just to scrape extra revenue from ablists [sic],” wrote a third.
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 (Greenfield hasn’t reported any COVID cases in more than two months).
The bar tried to apologize on social media, and that made things worse:
Two days later, Last Ditch posted an apology. “We are sorry for our passive and dismissive tone of our change to the norms and schedule impacting the most intersectional of us,” management wrote on Instagram. “We understand everyone faces different intersections and we are always working to consider all needs fully.”
Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse. The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired. This set off a fresh round of accusations of ableism.
“This is not an accessible post,” wrote one user. “It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”
The bar then tried a mediation session with a therapist (you could not make this up) and it devolved into Lord of the Flies:
One of Last Ditch’s most vocal critics, the head of another queer COVID-conscious collective in Western Massachusetts, a performer and artist who goes by Soe Noire, has been posting complaints about Last Ditch for days. Now, Noire joins the meeting on Zoom. He and other critics begin to flood the Zoom chat with irate messages, which are dutifully read aloud to the group…
“It’s messed up that the mediator is dismissing those attending virtually. That’s not accessibility,” someone responds in the chat.
“A lot of people are calling for an acknowledgment of harm and I’m hearing a WHITE therapist … center[ing] the feelings of a majority white and white adjacent staff,” writes Noire, who is Black.
Ace of Spades HQ has compiled some of the deranged comments included in a graphic in the Boston Globe story:
seeing these people whine about masks being a little inconvenient for them is INFURIATING.
how could we consider you “community” if you act in a way that is killing us.if youre only concerned with protecting yourself at the cost of DEATH for others, you are no better than a fascist.
What is truly being WILD is announcing a change of this magnitude in a cavalier, callous fashion.
if you spread diseases that disable and kill, you do not “love me”.
Does COVlD not disable people on Saturday nights? Very confused by the disregard for community care
disabled folks don’t have other spaces we can frequent, largely because of people like you who’ve accepted the culture of ableism and don’t want to mask to keep their communities safe.
Everyone is at risk of Long COVID. Everyone can and will experience multiply disabling impacts from repeat infections
masking isn’t just for disabled folks. everyone is at risk. masking is community care. this establishment, apparently, is not
The story is also getting a lot of attention on Twitter/X.
This is the most psychotic and amazing thing you will ever read. https://t.co/ZrXYnUlPSn
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) September 22, 2026
The bar’s original announcement, which caused everyone to freak out, is itself a masterclass of intergalactic woke batcrapitude https://t.co/GtQPqiN51m pic.twitter.com/BpsZ0GhYLI
— Jonathan Kay (@jonkay) September 22, 2026
You know
On second thought
Maybe we should never ever allow these people to have an ounce of power ever again https://t.co/RuNsc6AkPw
— Aaron McIntire (@DeaceProducer) September 22, 2026
A story published in … checks notes … the Year of Our Lord 2026.
Maybe we should just conclude that certain people- and we all know who they are- WANT to stay broken forever. https://t.co/PFqeDwFsx8
— Grateful Calvin (@shoveitjack) September 22, 2026
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Comments
Who the hell goes to a bar wearing a mask? Ever? LOL
agreed – several problems with the woke science – woke fears – woke derangement
A – almost everyone has had covid at this point, often multiple times.
B – almost every leftist has taken the covid vax several times.
C – at this point in the evolution of the covid virus, its nothing worse than the common cold.
Its nothing more than a serious delusional panic among woke idiots.
B. might explain the rise of insanity/brain fog among the Covid “vaccine” addicted….
Pretty much every woman. Functionally masks conceal the true face/features …which is what make up does as well. It ain’t called concealer for nothing.
Hey! Do you want to kill Weird Grandma?!?
I’m assuming the mask thing was some kind of compromise because they couldn’t mandate that the patrons wear bags over their heads.
I’ve been to Amherst. There are no beer goggles strong enough.
I live in SE Portland. Hold my beer. Our real estate prices are being maintained by an older obese lesbian couple moving in to every house recently vacated by a family escaping taxes and the woke school system. basically, if you are an outlier anywhere, come to Portland where you will fit in with the other outliers. Embracing this type of weirdness is what first killed San Francsco, and is currently killing Portland and Seattle. When you lower the bar of civility for one group, it lowers the bar for everyone else.
Uh doesn’t everyone at the bar take off their little masks every time they take a drink? If they’re drinking through the mask, I’d like to see a video of that. Comic gold.
Maybe they’re so ugly the mask is necessary to pick up other Butch Cassidy’s and Comfortable Shoes Carpet Cleaners.
Someone needs to tell them that burkas would hide the face and flatter their corpulent carcasses better
Why, ANTIFA fascists, of course!
Hey! Masks give the ugly girls and Trannies a fighting chance of not going home alone.
Cut em a break, okay?
“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 (Greenfield hasn’t reported any COVID cases in more than two months).”
These “folx” are not compatible with a free, high-trust society. There’s no way to rehabilitate them, and no way to re-integrate them into a normal society.
Make mental hospitals great again! We have plenty of future residents available!
Agreed. When Cray Cray people demonstrate their Cray Cray daily its time to lock them up and get them some help. Masks, sky screaming, harassing normies, stalking LEO …any of the basic breaches of peace that would have gotten them locked up and maybe smacked upside the head with a night stick 50 or 60 years ago …those folks need help and the rest of us deserve to live our lives without their narcissistic antisocial aggression, hissy fits and tantrums.
So it wasn’t inappropriate for me to move when the masked tranny openly carrying a hunting knife took the seat behind me on the bus? And they wonder why ridership on TriMet is down.
Ironically, these are the people who love to call YOU a “phobic.”
Shouldn’t their masks be constructed from carpet remnants?
Mandated masks, in 2026? The mentally ill still walk among us, in growing numbers by the day.
The intersectionality comes from the multiple derangements in individuals. How sadly amusing. We who are a bit more sane shake our heads, smile, and say, “There but for the grace of God go I.”
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one wonders how many of the comments were people just making fun of them by aping the psychosis.
My doctor’s office is in Greenfield. They do not require masks. Greenfield is actually a bit saner than many of the surrounding communities.
Not exactly a ringing endorsement.
It’s a dump. It’s been a dump for a long time.
Like North Adams it has a really high heroine, fentanyl problem.
The Babylon Bee can’t touch this. Beyond satire.
I always wonder. Do the authors of this kind of insanity ever ask: “Doesn’t this make us look like the kind of wackadoodles the normals think we are?”
My guess is that fish don’t know they are wet.
Rush Limbaugh used to ask if an alligator knows it’s an alligator.
Somewhere beyond the Valley of Cats, there is a land where all trash is washed and boxed so it need never be taken to the curb.
Business has been slow and is about to get slower….
Well, bye. When you cater to the only 6 people on the planet who care, the bills dont get paid. Of course, this is MA, so some guilty, filthy rich liberals will pay taxes to have the government keep such nonsense afloat.
You clearly have never been to Amherst or Northampton. There are literally protests every day of the week about something.
There are thousands of these downwardly mobile losers. Mostly fat, tatted, pierced and with blue/pink/purple hair. It’s like a alternate universe of miserable losers.
I’m from Springfield, and when I was in the military back in the 90s I brought a bunch of guys to Northampton for a day so they could visit the town.
These were guys from all over different parts of the country and they were amazed as well as appalled at the lunatic guys wearing dresses and men making out with other dudes.
Needless to say we left and I brought them to the big “E” instead.
I used to prefer the Topsfield Fair, where the pumpkins were actually heavier than many of the lesbians.
That’s a might big pumpkin!
The Big E is quite expensive this year: $14 and up beers, $5 water. And the venues seem reduced, i.e. none of the trashy “Ronco” toys I used to love. Parking in the private satellite lots has spiked to $20.
And the smell of pot is everywhere!
That said, Northampton is not even entertaining anymore. Still full of arrogant lefties and transitioning Smith “girls.”
I believe Rachael Maddow lives in Northampton. Freak central.
Probably a bunch of mental ill trans claiming to be Lesbians.
I think I am a Lesbian. Ha
Checkout Matthew Moline’s “Are you a real cowboy?” youtube video”. Most guys can appreciate it. Not family friendly so do watch at work.
“Do Not” watch at work.
LOL! Don’t you wish you had used the preview feature?
Yea…….
Well. At least no one involved in this story will reproduce.
You wish. Surrogation with Chinese sperm…
Communist revolutions always eats their own. Always.
Umm… phrasing.
I dunno. It works with either interpretation.
Ah Greenfield Mass. one of the most run down rat infested junk towns in Mass.
I live about a half hour from there.
My father was a heroine addict when he was younger after his service in Vietnam.
He used to frequent Greenfield because it was one of the easiest scores for heroine back in the 1980s.
It used to be a pretty nice town when it had manufacturing a long time ago.
I think the majority of the town is subsidized housing.
No tax base.
It’s a dump.
Perhaps we should not knock those people who insist on everyone being masked. I am assuming that they have not contracted COVID presumably by everyone wearing their masks. But for the record, they have not been hit by a scale 7 earth quake nor a category 7 hurricane. So as you can see, wearing masks by them empirically has been shown to not only prevent the spread of COVID but also eliminates strong earthquakes and hurricanes. They might be on to something!
Also haven’t encountered the SMoD.
Is that like BSoD?
I’m guessing these critters are too deranged (probably from CO2 poisoning) to realize that if people are drinking, they have to take the mask off, and if they take their mask off, any germs they may have *will* spread.
Absolutely no insanity on display here.
I’ll be honest, when I saw the headline my first thought was that the masks were for anonymity.
Boy!! Was I wrong.
At least I now know where to steer clear of the cray cray.
These people are the woke/queer equivalent of a WWII Japanese soldier living on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific, convinced the war’s still going on and anything to the contrary is just enemy propaganda.
It might be a euphemism for dental dam.
So the mentally ill Lesbo’s on the ones I see still wearing mask. Maybe it is lack of o2 that is their problem.
Easier to pop on a mask than deal with the morbid obesity. Ditto dying the hair pink to look purty vs going to the effing gym.
The outrage can only arise from a belief in the effectiveness of masks at preventing the transmission of disease. But if you believe this (right or wrong), then why can’t the immunosuppressed protect themselves by continuing to wear their masks? As I understand it, the requirement to wear a mask is lifted for one night per week. This is not a mandate to not wear a mask, it is merely permission to not wear one.
Have you forgotten? Your mask doesn’t protect you. MY mask protects you. That’s why you feel you can arrogate the privilege of forcing ME to wear a ask to keep YOU healthy.
No, I have not forgotten. But anyone with any sense whatsoever knows that couldn’t possibly be true. A logical consequence of a mask’s effectiveness (presuming it has any) is that it must work both ways.
“But anyone with any sense whatsoever”
Clearly you missed the part where this is about a lesbian bar in Massachusetts where masks were mandatory.
With bacterial meningitis, a space suit seems appropriate and reasonable, just sayin.
It violates leftist delusion, hence, an unforgivable crime.
Does the number if Uhauls exceed the population of the town?
It doesn’t work like that. Even when they get it right, they get it wrong. It’s like there’s something else going on here…
Well-fitted N95 or KN95 (plus proper handling) can do some good for the wearer. For others, not so much. Many of these masks have unfiltered flappy exhale vents, even.
The screechy-reasoing -= screechening? — is the tell: “I’m at risk, so you must do something.” Rather: “They’re at risk, so you must do something; I’ll supervise.:”
It’s like the point isn’t “protecting people”, but demanding that some folks do a thing because you said so.
To be fair, I did have less pollen allergy stuff back in 2020 and 2021. Anyone wearing a mask in a car by themselves should have been arrested for driving while indoctrinated.
“driving while indoctrinated”
Imma use that. Thank you..
It’s not hard to understand why these womyn are lesbians. No man would tolerate their BS for more than 30 seconds. I bet they all look like the bully jurors in the Lindsey Clancy trial.
There is another more basic issue here I don’t see mentioned, well several but here is a big one. This is a bar, how exactly do you drink with a mask on? Or like one comment about does covid take Sat nights off, does covid magically not leak out when your raise your mask to sip your drink? And since it sounds like a pick up bar how do you know the person you take home doesn’t have covid?
What a useless rule. You can’t drink while wearing an n95 mask. Are these people retarded?
Pathetic and simultaneously hilarious!
There’s a dystopian comedy skit already written.
I’m a Two Spirtit. Scotch and bourbon.
What a tragedy this is. These people who are acting like idiots are to be pitied. They have no purpose or meaning in their life, and to find something worth living for they scrounge around the limits of sanity for some meaning. Their self-esteem and likely self-care is so poor they have to hide themselves instead of doing the hard work of making themselves into the best people they can be.
No wonder our country is circling the drain.
More internet insanity. Probably most of the hysterics responding to this call to “Pile on!” aren’t anywhere in the neighborhood of Greenfield, let alone regular patrons of this bar. Being aggrieved has become a sport, like making up fake sexy avatars or Gay Pride marches in Provincetown. These people (those who aren’t bots that is) need to get a life.
This far after the COVID-19 crisis, my presumption is that if you are wearing a mask, you are ill, and I will do my best to stay away from you.