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Laura Ingraham Has Been Terrorizing Students Since College, When She Outed Classmates

Ingraham's advisor at the Dartmouth Review says she even avoided restaurants if she thought the waiters were gay.

Laura Ingraham is in the crosshairs this week after taunting Marjory Stoneman Douglas survivor David Hogg. But the right-wing talk show host has decades of bullying behavior on her resume, particularly against the LGBT community.

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CLEVELAND, OH - JULY 20: Political talk radio host Laura Ingraham delivers a speech on the third day of the Republican National Convention on July 20, 2016 at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump received the number of votes needed to secure the party's nomination. An estimated 50,000 people are expected in Cleveland, including hundreds of protesters and members of the media. The four-day Republican National Convention kicked off on July 18. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

In 2015, Ingraham said providing transition-related care to trans children was tantamount to "child abuse." She also told her audience she no longer allowed her daughter to use public restrooms and suggested listeners wear adult diapers to avoid encountering trans people in the bathroom.

It goes as far back as college: As a student at Dartmouth in the 1980s, Ingraham became editor of the conservative Dartmouth Review. At one point, she directed a reporter to infiltrate a meeting of the campus LGBT group and record students' conversations. She then published the transcript, outing many of them to classmates, and sent tapes of the meetings to the students’ parents.

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11/17/95 - Office of attorney Laura Ingraham, 1440 NY Ave, 9th floor One of several women we will be taking photos of for a conservative women story. - Photo By Robert A. Reeder TWP (Photo by Robert A. Reeder/The Washington Post/Getty Images)

In the article, she called association “cheerleaders for latent campus sodomites" and later defended the outings as a "freedom of the press issue."

Dartmouth English professor Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for the Review, says Ingraham had "the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable," going so far as to avoid a restaurant where she was afraid the waiters were gay.

In 1997 a The Washington Post op-ed, Ingraham announced she had changed her views on homosexuality, after witnessing "the dignity, fidelity, and courage" with which her gay brother Curtis coped with AIDS.

That didn't stop her from suggesting marriage equality would lead to incest, though: “I think we’ve moved on beyond gay marriage to transgenderism and then, maybe, polyamory," she told listeners. "Maybe some type of incestuous relationship will be validated by the state as long as it’s not consummated. Right? I mean, who knows?”

Ingraham's latest abuse hit her in the pocketbook, as Hogg's call for a boycott of The Ingraham Angle has cost the show numerous advertisers. She offered a weak apology on Twitter, though not on her radio show or Fox News.

"Laura Ingraham's cowardly, public bullying of the students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School is consistent with her vile views including her ongoing targeting of the LGBTQ community,” said GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis in a statement.

"From hateful remarks about marriage equality and the transgender community to attacking youth activists and the communities we lock arms with, advertisers must question if they want to be associated with her fringe opinions.”

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