Truck painted with "OPEN OUR GYMS F****T" cruises Colorado to protest safer-at-home order

[Behind the Aegis]

A website has posted images of what appears to be a far-right extremist angrily calling Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) a “f****t” over anti-coronavirus measures taken in the state.

The website for Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists posted an image of a truck they believe is owned by Loveland, Colorado resident Michael Drewer, 61. The truck is painted with the message “OPEN OUR GYMS F****T.”

On his Facebook page, Drewer posted images of himself in Confederate flag shirts. His posts there show off his muscular body, showing how important gym attendance is to him.

Gov. Polis, who is the first openly gay governor in the U.S., issued a stay-at-home order last month in an effort to reduce COVID-19 casualties. The order closed certain businesses, including restaurants, bars, and gyms, to keep people from gathering in large numbers. The state has started to re-open, but gyms are low on the priority list.

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Because, you know, it's OK to call gay men "faggots".

ETA: Homophobia is real. It kills. And, it is not just self-loathing gays who are homophobic, STRAIGHT people can be homophobic too!

[Maru Kitteh]

1. Your boobs are saggy and your gut looks like a My Pillow.

You don't need a gym. You need a lot of things, but not a gym. I will also note, your left ring finger is bare. No other humans wiling to put up with your shit? SHOCKING.

[JI7]

2. These people are trash. These aren't regular people frustrated

over things being closed for normal reasons. almost everyone feels this way.

Those"protesting" like this are mainly hate groups.

[Alex4Martinez]

3. He's a sick fuck bigot in a confederate flag shit.

His Labrador is so embarrassed that she insisted on being made anonymous in this picture using image pixilation.

[rockfordfile]

13. un-American with the confed crap

[JI7]

18. He looks like one of those Creepers on the Catch a Predator show

[Tipperary]

10. Uh, oh never mind

[obamanut2012]

15. Seriously? Delete this POS post

[Jamastiene]

22. What did I miss?

Never mind. I'm glad I missed it this time. I got zero patience left for bigotry.

[Behind the Aegis]

28. If you do want to know, I will send it to you.

I hope you are doing well. I know weather there is getting crazy along with the denizens of that state. Awww...NC, a mystery unto itself!

[Initech]

5. I actually have to say I'm enjoying watching these assholes squirm.

Yeah it really, seriously sucks that we don't get to have our playthings and shiny objects, nor do we get to see our friends and loved ones, but until we get a vaccine we're all in the same boat, people.

And these are the assholes that call us the "triggered snowflakes".

[muntrv]

6. Another person who needs a Lysol injection.

[Tipperary]

9. What does "gay" look like exactly?

Hmm?

[obamanut2012]

16. You seriously think ypur post is appropriate????

Especially on here? It is offensive and bigoted and homophobic. Delete this garbage, now. JFC.

[struggle4progress]

8. You'd think that by now he'd be over the fact that his great-great-grandpa lost the civil war

[Celerity]

11. This thread is depressing AF

Including some of the replies, as well

[Behind the Aegis]

12. Yes, it is.

But a good reminder how we are thought of even by supposed allies and why we need to be more vigilant.

[Celerity]

14. and in another thread (not for the first time) I am being told that wanting a PoC as VP is pandering

and risky and we need to stick to white candidates. Also, in the past, I have been told the same for simply wanting a woman VP or POTUS.

This place is well cocked-up far too often on so many intersectional levels. The projections by far too many boil down to (just as they always do and always have) the diktats of hetero white males. I am far from a radical when it comes to identity (even as a lesbian multiracial cis-gendered female), but it seems to always come to the same old same old when we get to rubber-meets-the-road time. I just want inclusiveness when it comes to power-sharing, and certainly do not consider that 'pandering' when striving for this.

really in a mood today, sorry

[Jamastiene]

24. I know the feeling.

Virtual Covid-19-free

[Behind the Aegis]

27. No need to be sorry.

I am sure it was obvious from my post (I don't often add comments in an article I post), that I was in "a mood" too! I am sooooooo sick of every time an article is posted about a homophobe, especially a male (never seems to happen when the homophobe is female) and poster after poster speculate how the homophobe is really a "secret 'mo!". It is as if the only homophobes that exist are gay men, and somehow, as if by magic, heterosexuals can't be or aren't homophobes. People go on and on about "whitesplain' and mansplanin'" but seem to overlook their heterosexual privileges and the voluminous amount of straightsplanin' that happens. Thus, the nature of heterosexism rears its ugly ass head.

BTW, I owe you a long over due "thank you" for your magnificent and, often, herculean efforts in regards to confronting and shutting down all the anti-Buttigieg bullshit!

[obamanut2012]

17. Agreed, vile replies in this thread

Including being cute about using slurs.

[maxrandb]

19. I had no idea Colorado was a Confederate State n/t

[mountain grammy]

29. Right, so much for history and heritage

I remember seeing a confederate flag flying over a campground in Wyoming. Heritage?

[Jamastiene]

20. It doesn't look like that bigot has ever been to a gym.

Why would that bigot even care?

I despise the assumption that all homophobes are closeted gay people. That is such bullshit. I even hear other gay people saying that sometimes. Nope, not true at all.

My stepbrother, who I can assure you is as straight as straight can be, and claims how "great" he is with gay people keeps a damn 45 pistol on him at all times, in case a gay man makes a pass at him. I told him if I had had that right for when a straight man makes a pass at me, Richmond County, NC would have been all but empty of straight men years ago and I would never have been held down and raped by the building full of people back in the 90s, then told by police to "go to church" then told by county run mental health to "get right with God."

I have received only hate inside this county. The only non hate has been on DU with the gay community here and with a few friends I have made OUTSIDE of this shithole county where I live.

Yetp, my stepbrother and others like him still continue to insist they are great with gay people. No, they are not, not if they are itching to shoot any gay guy for looking at them wrong. And believe it or not, my stepbrotheris one of the better ones when it comes to not attacking people for being gay where I live, oddly, enough. It is THAT bad here.

The guy in the post would be about the average here. The mentality, everything. It's still not right. Not right at all. Hatemongers have free rule over the rest of us and I am beyond sick of it.

For once, I would love to see homophobes get their asses handed to them for their bigotry.

[maryellen99]

21. I bet he thinks he's an alpha male lol nt

[Roland99]

23. Another member of the Micro-Penis Platoon

And a brain to match

[Takket]

25. Nothing says "I'm a reasonable person who's opinions deserve to be heard"

Like throwing in a homophobic slur at the end of your demands.

[dalton99a]

26. Michael Dean Drewer's public info:

https://voterrecords.com/voter/82908581/michael-drewer

https://cospringsantifa.noblogs.org/post/2020/05/19/homophobic-pro-covid-protester-michael-drewer-co/

[Ilsa]

30. Looks to me like He dyes his hair.

I wonder if he ever considered that vanity to be less masculine?