Massachusetts Lesbian Bar Last Ditch Finally Responds to Its Viral Moment

Last Ditch, the western Massachusetts lesbian bar that was profiled in a viral Boston Globe article after announcing that it would ease its masking mandate one night a week in an attempt to increase business, has responded to the overwhelming attention from all corners of the country. “Our community should expect more details in the future,” a Thursday Instagram post from the bar read, its first communication since the article became a viral hit for the Globe, which was reportedly “on pace to shatter all sorts of Globe records,” per Semafor reporter Max Tani. Rather than going into further details about the state of the bar since being subject to national attention, the post first requested that aid go to Soe Noire, the performer and artist who is quoted throughout the article criticizing Last Ditch’s decision. See on Instagram “Today we need to address the safety of the community itself. Stop harassing Soe Noire,” Last Ditch wrote on Thursday. “It is neither productive, progressive, nor valiant to attack and harass a black patron. He has been a collaborator and performer of Last Ditch for a while, and he deserves to speak his mind about accountability and repair from the bar.”Saying that there were issues with “disorganization” in the Globe’s article, Last Ditch said that Noire “did not call for a shutdown, nor did he call for the bar to be firebombed.” The post continued, “Further, he did not disparage the owner for being homeless. As a result of this abysmal journalism, Soe has been getting additional threats, slurs, and harassment, and now he is being reported to the police over something he did not do. This is not supporting us at Last Ditch, and it is at its core, anti-blackness hysteria.” While a person quoted in the original article did say in a Zoom chat that they hope that Last Ditch gets firebombed for “robbing my fellow immunocompromised people of their Saturday plans,” that quote was not attributed to Noire.In the ori