Free beer for straights: Idaho bar sticks to plans for ‘heterosexual month’ despite death threats

An Idaho bar that hosted events celebrating “heterosexual awesomeness” during Pride Month is vowing to bring back the festivities, despite backlash and death threats.

Mark Fitzpatrick, owner of the Old State Saloon in Eagle, plans to revive the controversial festival, offering free beer to straight men, discounts to straight women and couples, and T-shirts that read “Beers for Breeders.”

“When I think about heterosexuality, I think about great,” he told DailyMail.com on Tuesday. “We’ve always really stood for conservative, traditional, Christian (values) like that.”

During the event over the summer, Fitzpatrick says, he and his company received death threats and someone threatened to burn down the building. He also says someone urinated on his van and his Facebook page with 18,000 followers was deleted, forcing him to start a new one and create an X account, which currently has 53,000 followers.

He also has a TikTok page, where he boasts that the Saloon is “the heterosexual headquarters of the world.”

“They wrongly reported me as a terrorist,” he told DailyMail.com on his Facebook page. “I’m getting a lot of hate.”

Despite the negativity, he saw his sales “three to 10 times” higher than normal per day in June, and his sales have continued to go up. He also saw people come from out of state to support his efforts, both at his June event and in September — which was held the same weekend as Boise Pride.

Fitzpatrick also said he wasn’t organizing the events to “compete” with LBGT+ festivities, but to celebrate all sexualities, including heterosexuals.

“As June approached, we realized that all sexualities would be celebrated, but not the sexuality that God designed,” he told DailyMail.com. He reiterated, however, that he has no problem with the LBGT+ community.

“I don’t have a problem with them. I love them, I love people,” he said. “People can do whatever they want.”

He even invites them to his restaurants and says he sees a few of them passing by every now and then.

However, Fitzpatrick, who is Christian, said he and other religious people do not need to celebrate “those who fall outside of God’s plan” and that heterosexual people also deserve to be celebrated in June.

“It’s an extreme celebration (for the LBGT+ community),” he says, as they celebrate Pride Month in June and LGBT History Month in October. “It seems extreme.”

Fitzpatrick even went to Boise Pride, not to celebrate the LGBT+ community, but to talk to people who had different views than he did. He spent time discussing both sides and said people “got” where he was coming from.

He also says he “disagrees” with those who claim heterosexuals are celebrated every other day of the year.

“That is literally not true,” he told DailyMail.com.

While he doesn’t plan on hosting heterosexual festivities again until June, he hopes to make the second festival “much, much bigger.” He wants more businesses to get involved, get sponsors and rent a space big enough to accommodate everyone, since lines were already “out the door” in June.

Earlier this month, he also saw a big increase in sales of his “Eagle Hetero Awesome Fest,” where “real ladies” with XX chromosomes got 50 percent off all drinks on Friday. Biological males got the same deal on Saturday as members of the “hetero stud club.”

He also hosted a straight singles night, straight karaoke, a “beer for breeders” event where “anyone who identifies as Super Straight” got a free beer, and had a live version of the Bryce Eddy show featuring former Congresswoman Madison Crawford that same weekend.

Even though Fitzpatrick ignores the haters, it doesn’t stop them from spamming his page to tell him the truth.

“The fact that you are actively using discrimination to advertise and market this event is simply disgusting. These types of posts do nothing but promote and incite hate in our community and you should be ashamed of yourselves,” Faith Miller Liska wrote on Facebook.

“This event gives you that snowflake feeling,” wrote another of the September festivities.

“Poor little creatures who need their beloved, hetero-safe space,” wrote a third.

The bar also hosts a weekly Bible study group on Sundays for people who feel “uncomfortable in church” and “conspiracy theory trivia.”