{"id":80520,"date":"2026-10-26T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-makes-frantic-effort-to-find-new-owners-after-relaxing-masking-policy\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:56","slug":"massachusetts-lesbian-bar-makes-frantic-effort-to-find-new-owners-after-relaxing-masking-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-makes-frantic-effort-to-find-new-owners-after-relaxing-masking-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts lesbian bar makes frantic effort to find new owners after relaxing masking policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Ditch bar announced it would \u2018soft close\u2019 after it went viral following a story on its attempt to relax Covid rules<\/p>\n<p>A Massachusetts lesbian bar that went viral for loosening its Covid mask policy last month announced plans to \u201csoft close\u201d on Monday as it seeks new ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The Last Ditch bar, in the small city of Greenfield, said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lastditchbar\/p\/De9mGARKf8n\/\">in an Instagram post<\/a> that it was searching for co-owners, new owners or a full sale, and that it would \u201csoft close effective immediately\u201d, with \u201conly booked events\u201d continuing while it closes this winter. It had opened just last year as a bar for \u201cdykes, transsexuals, gender freaks, workers, and their friends\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/26\/last-ditch-lesbian-bar-closing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Ditch bar announced it would \u2018soft close\u2019 after it went viral following a story on its attempt to relax Covid rules A Massachusetts lesbian bar that went viral for loosening its Covid mask policy last month announced plans to \u201csoft close\u201d on Monday as it seeks new ownership. The Last Ditch bar, in the &#8230; <a title=\"Massachusetts lesbian bar makes frantic effort to find new owners after relaxing masking policy\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/massachusetts-lesbian-bar-makes-frantic-effort-to-find-new-owners-after-relaxing-masking-policy\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Massachusetts lesbian bar makes frantic effort to find new owners after relaxing masking policy\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}