An anti-lockdown protestor from Colorado is pissed he can’t go to the gym, so he’s taken to writing homophobic graffiti on his pickup truck and cruising around town.
Last Sunday, Michael Drewer drove up and down the streets of Loveland, Colorado with a message to Colorado Governor Jared Polis painted on the back of his Chevy Silverado.
“OPEN OUR GYMS F*GGOT,” it read.
Michael Dean Drewer is a 61 year old man from Loveland, Colorado was seen driving with “OPEN OUR GYMS F**GOT” written on the back of his truck to support a Reopen Colorado protest directed at Colorado’s (gay) governor Jared Polis on Sunday. pic.twitter.com/fJMQeZ5kKJ
— Colorado Springs Anti-Fascists (@COSAntiFascists) May 19, 2020
The 61-year-old’s vehicle was photographed driving to a Reopen Colorado protest and identified by a local Antifa group.
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“He’s a boring and bigoted man living a sad life, whose only joy seems to come from skipping leg day, calling gay people slurs, and spreading viruses,” the group said.
LGBTQ Nation notes that, on his personal Facebook page, Drewer has lots of pictures of himself wearing tight-fitting Confederate flag muscle shirts, and he frequently posts photos showing off his ripped bod.
So, clearly, going to the gym is very important to him.
His Facebook profile also shows that he’s a big fan of Shakira and Celine Dion, and he’s really into high school wrestling, particular Windsor High School’s team.
Many states have temporarily closed gyms since they are considered high to medium risk places when it comes to the spread of coronavirus.
Gym-goers share equipment, which is often not properly sterilized in between uses, and it can be difficult to keep a safe six-feet apart because of crowding. Not to mention, showers and steam rooms can easily become breeding ground for all sorts of contagions.
“Gyms can be difficult places to maintain social distancing and the volume of high-touch surfaces and objects makes them uniquely challenging for infection prevention efforts,” epidemiologist and researcher Dr. Saskia Popescu recently told Vox.
Creamsicle
1. Gay people who buy into conservative dogwhistles and rhetoric confuse the hell out of me.
2. Didn’t CDC declare gyms okay in mid-February or something? Colbert made a joke about how glad he was to be able to “continue going to the gym.”
Sure this guy is a nutjob, but the world has gone nuts now. Are we supposed to pretend like any of this is normal?
Chrisk
Yeah, just like everything was still open in February. What is your point?
I would love to go back but gyms are literally at the top to be avoided right now according to the experts.
youarebetterthanthat
Gyms in Colorado are still closed by order of the governor, and as far as I know are not part of any staged reopening yet, partly because research has shown that intense physical activity in enclosed spaces is one of the best possible ways to transmit the virus. As someone that works in medical research, one case that has gathered a lot of attention is a single dance fitness workshop in South Korea that led to 112 coronavirus cases. Meanwhile, in a different part of the building, a yoga workshop (where people were spread out as you naturally do in yoga classes, and there is no intense physical activity) produced no new cases of the illness. You don’t want to spend a lot of time in an enclosed space with others, even with a mask, especially if they are talking, singing (see the case of the choir group that was so devastating), or engaging in intense physical activity.
jayceecook
@youarebetterthanthat You’re absolutely correct. I read a few articles by researchers, virologists, and epidemiologists pointing out that one thing people need to know that really isn’t being discussed alongside other social distancing measures is how much time you spend in a crowded area. Not just gyms but stores, places of worship, work, etc. The more time you spend in those kinds of areas the more droplets you exposed to in the air by people coughing, sneezing, and simply talking. To me that’s common sense. However I guess they are trying to get people to understand that even with masks, hand washing, sanitization, and staying 6 feet apart those efforts decrease as exposure time increases. That’s one of the reasons why health professionals like the CDC, Who, etc are worried about opening up too soon. Especially places that are packed like gyms.
Bengali
Hopeful a truck full of homosexuals like myself will see him and run him off the road…preferably over a cliff.
batesmotel
I agree they should be open, and many of them in some states have begun to re-open with limited capacity allowed and social distancing. Those ones are doing fine. People are more bothered by his ‘slur’ than the open our gyms part. His governor doesn’t care about that since it looks like that governor hasn’t seen a gym in ten years. Working out in the gym spaced out is no different than the gridlock situation of being in a grocery store now where people keep bumping into you as if you’re not there.
fresnoman4man
I do take exception to the holier than thou pontification by the virus-phobes who declare themselves know it alls because some alleged “expert” says the way to “flatten the curve” is to tank the economy. BTW Mask wearing is actually very hazardous to ones health by forcing a person to breathe their own CO2 rather than oxygen. This in turn stresses the body, causes an anxiety response that can activate dormant viruses. If one’s immune system is in resonantly good shape one need not worry about the most recent Corona virus. The common cold is a Corona virus. The PCR test has about an 80% false positive rate. The more accurate serology antibody test has demonstrated the fact that most people who get this virus are immunized with little or no symptoms. The death rate statistics are ridiculously skewed by the CDC and the Gates financially Influenced WHO to support the Bill Gates/Fauci Big Pharma Vaccine agenda. BTW, VOX is part of the Comcast /NBC conglomerate which is highly dependent on advertising revenue from Big Pharma. Although they have lost revenue at Universal theme park and studios they have achieved record income from those sheltered in place who need the distraction of streaming entertainment.
This is the first time in history our society has mass quarantined the healthy to allegedly protect the vulnerable. BTW I’m 73 and recovering from a triple bypass and a stroke and Governor Gavin Newsome won’t allow me to get the therapy I need from my throat specialist or go to my gym for the therapeutic exercise I need. While, I empathize with the anger toward the Colorado Governor for for prolonging the fear of what is a relatively benign virus it illustrates how LBGTQ folk have too often been suckered in supporting the Gates/Fauci agenda.
Chrisk
fresnoman4man
I’m healthy but I wear a mask so others stay safe as well. That’s the trade off of living in a society. If it stresses you out to wear one you have a choice. Stay home.
Stop being so damn self centered and get off of fox news once in a while.
youarebetterthanthat
@fresnoman4man As someone that has worked in medical research for over twenty years, I can state that you are putting people’s lives at risk by spouting this pseudo-scientific conspiracy theory garbage. All anyone has to do is to think about you’re claim that masks force the wearer to breathe their own CO2. Doctors and nurses wear masks routinely for 18 hours a day or more.
djmcgamester
Don’t know about Colorado. I do know that in NJ, police arrested people who went to a gym that decided to open.
The comment on his truck is childish, but I don’t think I need to explain that to anyone.
KZNBama
It seems like a lot of guys who grew up in ultra-conservative, religious, bigoted households have developed an almost unbeatable internalized homophobia. It’s self-hatred projected outwardly at others, such as riding around in a Silverado with your dick out like this dude.
Roan
“Muscle Daddy” LOLOLOLOLOL
Lola called. She wants her dress she used to wear and faded feathers back.
woodroad34
I was thinking the same thing. Just a selfish power bottom screaming at daddy to give it to him.
olfwob
Shakira,
Celine Dion,
Teenager Wrestling
calling people f….. sounds like one of these “deep in the closet” homophobes.
Chrisk
Plus that hair dye is as convincing as cheeto’s.
jmg619
Did you do a close up of the pic with his dog? His dog’s face got blurred out. LOL!! That dog was like, I don’t want to be associated with him, blur me out please. Hahaha…
Mister P
The Trump campaign is counting on people being this stupid and spreading it around.
Tombear
Well we use the word with affection towards our buds it’s no big deal.
controversial2019
It’s interesting that we would cry “homophobia” if heterosexuals stereotyped us as lovers of Celine Dion, Shakira and High School Wrestling (arguing “You can’t tar us all with the same brush“) and yet Queerty and a couple comments here either imply or explicitly state that he is closeted because of said interests…
I guess we play the H card when it suits us, eh?
Cam
Sweetie, his own facebook page gave that information. Nice try.
controversial2019
@cam – not sure what point you were trying to make? Maybe you misread (or just didn’t understand) my post?!
I haven’t questioned where his interests have come from (the article says his FB account), i mentioned how Queerty and people here were implying/saying he’s a closet case BECAUSE of those interests, and yet if someone stereotyped gays as all liking the same things, we’d cry “homophobia”.
Brian
I noticed that too. I have seen plenty of articles and comments here condemning people for calling someone gay as an insult. And then we get articles like this that are clearly implying that he’s probably gay because he likes stuff gay people like. As an insult.
I guess it’s like the N word, it’s only ok when gay people do it?
averageguy40
Isn’t 61 a little old to be carrying on like that? JMO.
Troysky
@averageguy40 ….yes, you are exactly right. And another reason this guy is so psychotically far in the closet, he’s breaking through the sheet rock, as he dreams and leaks in his shorts about getting nailed by Rocco Steele
woodroad34
Well, look at the PINO in the White House at 73….if you didn’t see him, you’d swear he was a 5 yo.
Metro135
Like most right-wing assholes he can’t even spell. All these idiots must have flunked out of first grade.
Chris
Sooooo….after seeing his pic, I’m going to go out on a limb and say he’s gay as Christmas.
Bengali
And he’s just one more self-hating Christian.
sonic_source
If she wants to go to the gym that badly, let her. As my grand dad used to say, “Be careful what you wish for.”
ShiningSex
I guess that closet queen misses her time in the showers with all of those men. Mmmmm!
He’s a moron.
darkanser
That’s been MY main complaint!! Can’t even go to the beach.
jlew64
I think you’re being a little generous with the term “muscle daddy”… Never mind… a lot generous!
Troysky
….i thought so too
toddlicious
First of all, this embarrasses me for being from Colorado. Second of all I feel sorry for his dog, his family, and his neighbors, what a complete and utter a**hole you really can just see the crazy in his eyes. He probably lives a very sad, lonely life
rickh710
I love, love, love that the dog’s face is blurred. Protect the innocent!
Rock-N-RollHS
Lol
ElPillo
Far from muscle daddy and he’s a pig. He and his types should be allowed all to gather together often and intimately and see if nature handles it.
batesmotel
While I agree with him in wanting the gym open, he could’ve used another word or at least eliminated it. Simply painting, “Open our Gyms” on it would’ve been more effective than using an outdated slur.
tjr101
Guess what, it’s tends to be people like him (far-right idiotic bigots) that are the loudest mouths protesting to reopen stuff. So in essence it’s no surprise he used a slur. They can’t communicate their opinions with civility.
fur_hunter
Maybe we’ll get lucky and he’ll catch the virus and die a horrible, painful and agonizing death. We can only hope.
darkanser
Admittedly Colorado doesn’t spend a lot of time on my radar, so I was perplexed by the slogan drawn on the truck — that is until I read the bit about Colorado’s governor. I must confess I conjured up a WHOLE different image of the guy who had written those words on his truck. I guess I spend too much time on Pornhub.
BigJohnSF
piss poor excuse for a muscle daddy – looks like he wasn’t going to the gym when it was open
CityguyUSA
Childish!
controversial2019
Why does everyone on here seem to think that if someone is being homophobic then it means they’re a closet case? Is that an American thing? None of my circle here in the UK auto-assume homophobes are gay. Yet on here, every time.
Dunnedin
Yes, it’s an American thing. What’s strange is that it’s used as a slur “Well, we really know he’s just a closeted gay.” Whether or not he’s gay has nothing to do with his bigotry (and I wait for those who will yell “internalized homophobia”). Someone can be a homophobe and not be secretly gay. Do you really think all the Nazis (and Communists) killed gays because they themselves were secretly gay? No, because gays did not fit into the model of the Aryan or New Soviet Man – so were subversive and needed to be eliminated. For the one or two homophobes who do turn out to be closeted, there a much greater number who are just homophobes. If a person is racist it doesn’t mean they are automatically a “closeted African American”.
Aires the Ram
@Dunnedin: Shhhhhhh….Many on here don’t know any history past say, last week. Don’t confuse them with the facts.
Kangol2
@controversial2019, if you step beyond your anecdotal understanding of the relationship between homophobia and homophobes, you might see that psychologists have posed questions about this relationship.
You can Google published studies and discussions of studies in reputable field and popular journals (Scientific American, Psychology Today, etc.) that show experimental testing has demonstrated higher genital arousal upon viewing homosexual material among self-professed homophobic men (men expressing fear, disapproval and disgust at homosexual sex) than among self-professed non homophobic men (men expressing less or no fear, disapproval of or disgust at homosexual sex). Logically this makes sense, but experimental psychology has underscored that this is the case. It may not hold for all homophobia, which doesn’t exist in a vacuum and is mediated by political, social, economic, and cultural forces and discourses, but in terms of individuals holding homophobic attitudes, there is a demonstrated link.
It is not just an “American” issue; ask British psychologists and sociologists if you are convinced it is.
Kangol2
@Dunnedin, I won’t repeat what I said to @controversial except to say the correlation between homophobic attitudes and homophobia is not just “an American thing,” just as human psychology is not limited by national borders, however much they may mediate and shape larger social, political and cultural attitudes. Calling a homophobe a closeted gay is not a slur; often it is the truth. You need only look at a recent article on this site that points out that a number of high profile anti-gay conservatives who all turned out to be closeted/DL gay, bisexual or queer men. Aaron Schock is yet another posterboy illustrating this fact, but one could go down the list (Larry Craig, Mark Foley, Steve Gunderson, Jim Kolbe, etc.) Not all homophobes are closeted gay people, but many are (cf. the Roman Catholic priesthood), and the intensity of anti-gay attitudes held by an individual often but not always includes a latent, psychosexual component.
In terms of your loose characterization of Nazis and Communists killing gay men and lesbians, the history is considerably more complex than you portray. With regard to racism, what’s clear with racist White people, such as David Duke, for example, is that there often is a psychosexual component; Duke is alleged to be fascinated (obsessed) by interracial sex videos featuring Black men and White women, and one aspect of White supremacy and anti-Black racism (along with anti-Asian, anti-Latinx/Hispanic, etc.) rhetoric and action in this country has hinged not on White racists being secretly Black, but being fixated on interracial sex and marriage. Think of Strom Thurmond, one of the most vocal Dixiecrats and public racists, who secretly fathered a mixed race daughter after he raped an underage family servant. Thomas Jefferson is another example, and so on. Jim Crow law was strongly premised not only on political, economic and social domination but also on a psychosocial fixation concerning interracial relations, especially Black-White sexual coupling.
Black Pegasus
He’s clearly trolling and his targets are falling for it. They deserve each other. lol
Cam
Notice how the Right wing troll account tries to draw an equivalence between self hating bigotry and the people who oppose bigotry?
Nice try.
tjr101
I think they should reopen the gyms just for people like this guy. The Coronavirus can survive on metallic surfaces for up to 72 hours. Would love to see karma take hold and wipe out these idiots.
JanDivine
A sign of high intelligence.
Saps48
I didn’t know Colorado had a gay governor.
Well done, Centennial State…!
Heywood Jablowme
I’m guessing Queerty never mentioned Gov. Polis before now because they don’t think he’s a hottie and they don’t have any shirtless pix of him like they do with Brian Sims, or even an unemployed gay villain like Aaron Schock whose adventures Queerty must keep up with at all times!
Wicked Dickie
“…LGBTQ Nation notes that, on his personal Facebook page, Drewer has lots of pictures of himself wearing tight-fitting Confederate flag muscle shirts, and he frequently posts photos showing off his ripped bod….” Dows the Queerty writer have a crush on the homophobic muscle daddy?
re_horst
I never body shame but I’ve seen pics. WHERE ARE THE MUSCLES??
wikidBSTN
Michael Dean Drewer – you are a classic sad elderly closet case. And stay away from those high school wrestlers! Perv.
Pii
I’m just waiting for the inevitable reveals from former lovers and or high school wrestlers
clhs
What a strange way of telling the world you’re gay but repressed.
scotty
“skipping leg day”
Terrycloth
He could workout in a home gym but then there isn’t anyone else there to stare at his body as he grunts and struts….
nunya
Let people decide for themselves what risks they are willing to take. I don’t need the government babysitting me.
Aires the Ram
EXACTLY nunya! Thanks for posting that.
Sass-zilla
This is hilarious! I am so glad he is standing up to our totalitarian Governor. There is no reason to keep gyms closed now. The CDC just announced yesterday 5/20/20 That the virus does NOT transmit on surfaces and the “It stays on surfaces and is transmittable for 3 days” was an overreaction to be safer at first when we didn’t know what was going on. Now they have done peer reviewed scientific studies proving it does NOT transmit on surfaces. So Open up our Gym’s!
Roan
Well, hold your breath, you stupid ignorant twunt. It’s AIRBORNE.
Chrisk
Good try Troll. Way to move the goal posts. I don’t know if you’ve ever been in a gym but it’s almost impossible to keep the 6 feet rule.
Move on your sassy way to spread your BS somewhere else.
Heywood Jablowme
His grammar is incorrect. It should be “Open Our Gyms, F@ggot” with a COMMA!
He probably wants to “Close the Boarder” too!
ffmikey
Gyms are an important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. For the young it sets them on the course of living healthy and for seniors like myself it helps maintain a livable lifestyle. On top of my local gym being closed our moron governor in California has mandated gyms in condos and apartments must be closed as well.
I have a moderate back problem and the machine at my gym help me to stretch my back which in turn relieves my pain. Since this epidemic I have experienced two episodes of sever pain lasting a week each time. Not only do I have to increase my pain medication but staying out of bed is a chore. Open our gyms ASSHOLES. We can each wear a can of Lysol on our heads to spray and disinfect the area if need be.
dannyboi2
@fresnoman4man
So, Full of Crap, Face Mask has been used for hundreds of years way before Covid19. Use your common sense – Doctors Nurses use them all the time, of course, I don’t recommend you wear them 24/7 and no one is asking you. Believe Me, Bill gates doesn’t need our money. Stop with the conspiracy theories. you sound like trump.
succubus
he misses the steam room…