MICHELLE OBAMA & A GAME CHANGER FOR LGBTQ?

Lesbian activist kicked out of fundraiser for disrupting First Lady’s speech

BRODY LEVESQUE | LGBTQ Nation

WASHINGTON — First Lady Michelle Obama on Tuesday threatened to walk out on a private Democratic fundraiser after a lesbian activist repeatedly interrupted her speech to demand that President Obama sign an executive order to prohibit discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

Ellen Sturtz, 56, a member of GetEqual — a extremist group that advocates for LGBT equality through confrontational direct action — was escorted out of the event, which was being held at a private residence in northwest Washington.

According to the White House, Mrs. Obama “left the lectern” and confronted Sturtz, telling her, “One of the things that I don’t do well is this,” she said to applause from most of the guests. “Do you understand?”

The pool press report quoted Mrs. Obama as saying, “Listen to me or you can take the mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”

The White House told LGBTQ Nation that after the First Lady threatened to leave, the audience asked her to remain and Sturtz was instead escorted out of the room.

Sturtz told The Washington Post that she was stunned by Mrs. Obama’s response.

“She came right down in my face,” Sturtz said. “I was taken aback.”Sturtz said paid $500 to attend the fundraiser as part of a scheme by GetEqual to gain the President’s attention.

AND SHE GOT IT!!!

I GET  THE APPARENT DISRESPECT & LACK OF DECORUM TO OUR WONDERFUL FIRST LADY AND NO ONE ADORES MICHELLE OBAMA MORE THAN I DO BUT THIS WAS BIGGER THEN HER, OR YOU OR ME. THIS IS A HISTORICAL  CRY FOR FREEDOM & LIBERTY FOR TODAY & GENERATIONS TO COME.

HISTORY SHOWS THAT THOSE WILLING TO PUT THEIR REPUTATIONS ON THE LINE AND STAND UP--I MEAN REALLY STAND UP AND HAVE THE "COJONES" TO MAKE A LIFE ALTERING STATEMENT ON ISSUES CONCERNING THE GREATER GOOD USUALLY GET PRAISED MUCH LATER WHEN HISTORY SEES THE COURAGE IT TAKES TO BE VOCAL & GET THE SAID ISSUES ATTENTION; HERE BEING LGBTQ RIGHTS. 

I APPLAUD YOU ELLEN STURTZ FOR BEING THE VOICE OF SO MANY OF US. NOT EVERY LGBTQ PERSON NEEDS TO AGREE WITH ME BUT IT'S THIS KIND OF RADICAL STANCE THAT STARTS A DIALOGUE-BRAVA!

WE NEED TO BE VISIBLE EVERYWHERE AT THE RISK OF NOT BEING LIKED. WERE PIONEERS SUCH AS HARVEY MILK OR LARRY KRAMER LIKED AT FIRST BY THE STAUS QUO? OF COURSE FREAKIN' NOT!

  WE CANNOT SIT BY & WAIT FOR POLITICIANS OR SINGLE STATE LAWS TO DECIDE WHAT WE SO RIGHTLY DESERVE FROM OUR CONSTITUTION!

LGBTQ MARRIAGE EQUAILTY  HAS TO A FEDERAL LAW. THE SUPREME COURT MUST MAKE IT SO-SOONER BETTER THAN LATER!

NOW! NOW! NOW! WE GOTTA FIGHT HARDER  MY LGBTQ BROTHERS & SISTERS.

I AM VERY SORRY FOR MRS. OBAMA, A GREAT LADY & A COMPASSIONATE HUMAN BEING WHO IS ON "OUR" SIDE BUT THIS WAS NOT PERSONAL IT WAS ABOUT EQUALITY FOR ALL. 

FOR ELLEN TO SPEND $500 AND THEN RISK BEING MOCKED & SHUNNED IS TRUE BRAVERY IN MY BOOK. 

WITH ALL THE GAY BASHING BLOOMING IN NYC--YES WE NEED THE ELLEN STURTZS OF THE WORLD TO YELL EQUALITY SO WE CAN GET RESPECT FROM ALL AMERICANS-FROM THE ENTIRE WORLD, IN FACT!