Lesbian Bars Are Dwindling Across the US. How Online Outrage Thrust One Into the Spotlight
The policy shift drew 442 angry comments and helped the Boston Globe gain 1,000 new subscribers, officials said.
- On Monday, The Boston Globe published a story detailing intense backlash against Last Ditch, a lesbian bar in Greenfield, Massachusetts, after the venue announced a mask-optional policy for Saturday nights to address financial struggles.
- Owner Jackie Matellian revealed she is working multiple jobs and living in her car to support the $50,000 bar after two co-founders departed, leaving her responsible for a struggling venue that is not her passion project.
- Vitriolic Instagram backlash followed the announcement, with commenters accusing the bar of ableism and racism, while some users attacked staff and customers with commentary on their appearances and unabashed homophobic rhetoric.
- The Globe reported the story is its best performing story of the year and allegedly gained more than 1,000 new subscribers, even as Matellian faces a landlord's demand for $3,900 by month's end.
- Broader tensions surrounding COVID-19 precautions and queer community autonomy have intensified six years after the pandemic's onset, with marginalized spaces increasingly becoming fodder for internet-wide social reckonings that pit vulnerable groups against one another.
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Massachusetts Communist Party chapter attacks Boston Globe over lesbian bar story
A Communist Party chapter in Massachusetts called out the Boston Glober over its reporting on local lesbian bar Last Ditch, after it was criticism over going mask optional on Saturdays.
Massachusetts Communist Party chapter attacks Boston Globe over lesbian bar story - NEW YORK TIMES POST
NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! A Massachusetts chapter of the Communist Party took aim at The Boston Globe on Thursday over its reporting on a lesbian bar that has been criticized for lifting its mask mandate for just one night a week. The Boston Globe published an article about Last Ditch, a [...]
RANDOM MUSING | The lesbian bar outrage shows why Donald Trump won America
One was oddly remindedof Onoda after coming across the Boston ‘lesbian bar story’ that is every product manager’s wet dream: a story published in the Boston Globe that went so viral that it led to over a thousand subscriptions for what seemed a rather nondescript story but is an elegant outpost of woke America’s lastbastion.
The Boston Globe told it and the commentators and right-wing newspapers loved it: it begins with the obligation to wear masks.
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