By  David Martosko

PUBLISHED: 22:39 EST, 4 June  2013 |  UPDATED: 00:20  EST, 5 June 2013

 

First lady Michelle Obama, usually upbeat and positive  in public, turned sour Tuesday night and threatened to leave after a gay-rights  heckler interrupted her speech at a Democratic National Committee fundraising  dinner

First lady Michelle Obama’s speech at a  Washington, D.C. political fundraiser was interrupted by a lesbian protester on  Tuesday night, and she threatened to leave the event if the gay rights activist  wasn’t forced to leave. But the official White House transcript doesn’t indicate  anything about the heckler or Mrs. Obama’s audible reaction.

While the first lady was speaking to  approximately 200 Democratic Party loyalists who paid up to $10,000 to attend  the event at the swanky Washington home of a wealthy lesbian couple, the  protester interrupted with demands that the president issue an executive order  forcing federal contractors to stop discriminating against gay and transgendered  job applicants.

Amanda Terkel, a Huffington Post scribe who  served as the night’s ‘pool’ ‘reporter, wrote that the ‘[m]ost notable part of  the event was an interruption from a protester about 12 minutes into the  20-minute speech. A pro-LGBT rights individual standing at the front began  shouting for an executive order on gay rights.’

‘”One of the things I don’t do well is this,”  replied FLOTUS to loud applause,’ according to Terkel. ‘She left the lectern and  moved over to the protester, saying they could “listen to me or you can take the  mic, but I’m leaving. You all decide. You have one choice.”‘

The crowd, the pool report continued,  ‘started shouting that they wanted FLOTUS to stay.’

Terkel reported that when the protester was  escorted out, she shouted about being a ‘lesbian looking for federal equality  before I die.’

In a later report, she added that  ‘Heather  Cronk, co-director of the pro-LGBT rights group GetEQUAL, …  identified the  protester as one of their activists, Ellen Sturtz.’

 

Mrs. Obama brought her speaking talents – and her  considerable wingspan – to stump for Democratic candidates, but got her feathers  ruffled by the lesbian avenger

Terkel advised her fellow reporters to  ‘[p]lease check quotes with [the] official transcript.’

But when the White House’s transcript  arrived, The  Daily Caller reported Tuesday night, it didn’t include any  indication of an acrimonious exchange — and was missing Mrs. Obama’s threat to  leave the event.

 

GetEQUAL activist Ellen Sturtz heckled Michelle Obama on  Tuesday night, demanding that the president sign an executive order banning  federal contractors from discriminating in their hiring on the basis of sexual  orientation

The only indication in that transcript that  anything was amiss is a note about an ‘(Inaudible audience  interruption.)’

‘I lived and worked in the closet, hiding who  I was in order to earn a living,’ Sturtz said in a statement late Tuesday  night.

‘I had planned to speak tonight with DNC  officials but, as the First Lady was talking about our childrens’ future and  ensuring that they have everything they need to live happy and productive lives,  I simply couldn’t stay silent any longer.’

‘I’m looking ahead at a generation of young  people who could live full, honest, and open lives with the stroke of the  President’s pen,’ she insisted.

The  White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

But White House Press Secretary Jay Carney took an oddly coincidental  question  earlier in the day during his regularly scheduled briefing  about the same  discrimination issue that had Sturtz shouting at the top  of her  lungs.

A reporter asked Carney for a  progress  report on ‘a study of LGBT workplace discrimination possibly  led by the Council  of Economic Advisors,’ which was commissioned in 2012 after the president  declined to sign an executive order banning the  practice.

‘I don’t have any updated status on that for  you,’ Carney said. ‘I can tell you that the  president has long supported, as  you know, an inclusive Employment  Non-Discrimination Act. … And his  administration will continue to work to build support for it.’

‘The president’s record on support for LGBT  rights is significant and well known,’ Obama’s chief spokesman added.

Mr. Obama, he said, ‘believes that the right  approach to this problem is an inclusive piece of legislation, and that’s the  approach that we’re  taking.  It was the approach that we took with repeal  of “don’t ask,  don’t tell.”  And we continue to support this  effort.’

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