Yes, this post is from today, and it's about a current event. A lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, has eased its strict mask mandate in 2026, which has reportedly splintered the queer community in the city. This editor has questions. First, you can't drink with a mask on. Second, maybe a lesbian bar has other reasons for wanting its patrons masked.
A lesbian bar in Greenfield eased its stringent mask mandate, a decision that has splintered the queer community in the city and beyond. https://t.co/FuaTxqqjso
— The Boston Globe (@BostonGlobe) September 22, 2026
This is the most psychotic and amazing thing you will ever read. https://t.co/ZrXYnUlPSn
— Emily Zanotti 🦝 (@emzanotti) September 22, 2026
The Boston Globe reports:
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.
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So, one night a week, the bar was going mask-optional. In 2026.
The bar apologized in an Instagram post, but that only made things worse, as it wasn't an accessible Instagram post. "Instead of defusing the situation, the apology seemed to make things worse," The Globe reports. "The bar had erred: it posted an Instagram card without providing alt-text for the visually impaired."
Imagine writing this
— Kyle Raccio (@kyleraccio) September 22, 2026
What an amazing headline
— Three Year Letterman (@3YearLetterman) September 22, 2026
“Enjoy your death trap, ladies!” pic.twitter.com/eJUK2YCUuD
— Mattison Brooks (@RealMBrooks) September 22, 2026
This story is incredible.
— Cornholio Capital Management (@CornholioCap) September 22, 2026
THESE are the people who believe THEY should control the operations of the entire country, AND have total say over what EVERYONE ELSE can and cannot do…
Incredible.
Did you accidentally repost an article from 2021?
— IrishRover (@IrishRover256) September 22, 2026
This is the best article I’ve ever read. You literally couldn’t make up the insanity while in the midst of meth psychosis and taking LSD. We absolutely must take drastic measures to prevent anyone involved in this form of thinking from voting. Land owning men only.
— Lib Cuck Kryptonite (@LCKryptonite) September 22, 2026
You could not possibly better capture the modern progressive movement more completely in one short (totally insane) sentence than this one… 😱😂🤦♂️
— John Ziegler (@Zigmanfreud) September 22, 2026
And yet sure appears as if these same lunatics are about to be effectively in control of the Congress.🤮
— Be Thinkful (@BThinkful) September 22, 2026
Had to triple check the date on this. Holy shit, you psychos are living in a weird fucking bubble.
— Luke Williams (@LukeWilliakyxk) September 22, 2026
— Jack Journeay (@NFLD_Jack) September 22, 2026
Just how many intersectional disabled immunocompromised lesbians can there possibly be in Greenfield Massachusetts?
— MonsieurFranck (@MonsieurFranck4) September 22, 2026
Is this a throw back story from 2020? This can’t be real today can it?
— Steve Mullins (@stevenpmullins) September 22, 2026
How are you supposed to drink through an N95 mask?
— Bobby Shaftoe (@robertshaftoe41) September 22, 2026
Holy shit, I saw someone else post this earlier and wrote it off as satire 🤣
— The Armed Investor (@Armed_Investor) September 22, 2026
What a beautiful journalism you’ve done here!
Maybe they didn’t want to see what they all actually looked like.
— NH (@TwoQuoque) September 22, 2026
This is one of the greatest articles I've ever read. Thank you. Hang it in the Louvre.
— NewbieDM (@newbiedm) September 22, 2026
We wanted to see if Taylor Lorenz had weighed in, but instead we heard from Asa Rosario, a drag performer who uses it/its pronouns, who envisioned "a venue where it and its friends could perform."
Yes, there are photos. It's a real place, and this is a real story. It's behind a paywall, but we can assure you the whole thing is amazing. Check this out:
Moreover, the Zoom attendees speculate that the mediator’s licensed status makes her a mandated reporter — an agent of the state, akin to police. One person going by “Moss” asks if the mediator could have them hospitalized against their will, adding that her presence is “wildly unsafe.”
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