Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Mask
“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” Last Ditch merrily wrote in the August Instagram post that blew its world apart.Reported by 5 of 5 outlets; wording from New York Post.
What happened
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“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.
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.”
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“It indicates the lack of care or interest in Disability intersectionality.”
“Just say you’re being complicit in a mass disabling event and get it over with,” said one.
Analysis
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Framing
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Maher blasts ‘intolerant left’ after Massachusetts lesbian bar faces fury for tweaking COVID-era mask policy
Maher blasts ‘intolerant left’ after Massachusetts lesbian bar faces fury for tweaking COVID-era mask policy
How it changed
- 23 Sep
“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.
- 25 Sep
A Massachusetts communist group slammed the Boston Globe for a viral story it published about a lesbian bar that recently removed a KN95 mask mandate for one night a week.
- 26 Sep
Comedian Bill Maher took aim at his own side of the aisle Friday night, mocking far-left critics who torched a struggling Massachusetts lesbian bar for daring to go mask-optional one night a week.
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- 27 Sep
The Boston Globe reported that more patrons had said they could not afford the cover charge, and the bar allowed them in anyway.
- 30 Sep
“It is with love we inform our immunocompromised disabled divas we will be opening Saturday nights as mask optional,” it said.
Coverage 9 articles
30 Sep ‘I hope your venue gets firebombed’: The small-town lesbian bar left reeling after a ‘woke’ backlash
Sydney Morning Herald
27 Sep Maher blasts ‘intolerant left’ after Massachusetts lesbian bar faces fury for tweaking COVID-era mask policy
New York Post
27 Sep Paranoid owner of woke Mass. lesbian bar puts big restrictions on mask-free Saturday over ‘infiltrator’ fear
New York Post
26 Sep Maher blasts ‘intolerant left’ after Massachusetts lesbian bar faces fury for tweaking COVID-era mask policy
Fox News
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25 Sep Massachusetts Communist Party chapter attacks Boston Globe over lesbian bar story
Fox News
25 Sep Owners of the world's most woke lesbian bar are branded 'eugenicists' after dropping their face mask mandate for a single night
Daily Mail
25 Sep Massachusetts communists condemn ‘MAGA Media’ Boston Globe for viral lesbian bar story
Washington Examiner- 23 Sep Massachusetts lesbian bar ignites fury after easing mask rules for one night a week
Fox News 
23 Sep Massachusetts lesbian bar nearly bullied out of town after lifting mask mandate — for one night a week
New York Post
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