‘We hope your venue gets firebombed’: The ‘mask optional’ night that helped sink a lesbian bar

Last Ditch Bar, a self-described lesbian bar that maintained COVID mask requirements long after pandemic restrictions ended, is shutting down after struggling financially — and its attempt to offer just one mask-optional night a week sparked anger from customers.

“The Last Ditch Bar, wonderful establishment,” BlazeTV host Stu Burguiere comments.

“You have to have a mask to go into this place. They were very concerned about COVID. Super woke, really crazy bar,” he continues, noting that when the bar had recently tried to host one “mask optional” night a week, the patrons lost their minds.

“The kiss of death, many would call it,” co-host Dave Landau comments.

“They said they were ‘complicit in a mass disabling event,’” Stu laughs, before reading a comment from