As editor of The Dartmouth Review, she had a reporter go undercover at an LGBTQ meeting on Dartmouth campus and published the transcript including the attendees.[8] She was criticised for forcibly outing them to friends and family.[8] At the start of the meeting, an oath of confidentiality was read whereby participants in the meeting were assured that information from the meeting would not be made public.[8] Ingraham claimed confidentiality did not apply, because the meeting had been advertised, and defended the outing of the gay students as a “freedom of the press issue”.[8]
During her time at the Dartmouth Review, Ingraham was known to harbor homophobic views.[9] In 1997, she apologized for her homophobia.[9] Jeffrey Hart, the faculty adviser for The Dartmouth Review described Ingraham as having “the most extreme anti-homosexual views imaginable”, claiming “she went so far as to avoid a local eatery where she feared the waiters were homosexual.”[10] In 1997, she wrote an essay in The Washington Post in which she stated that she changed her views on homosexuality after witnessing “the dignity, fidelity, and courage” with which her gay brother Curtis and his partner coped with AIDS. Ingraham has stated that she supports civil unions, but still believes that marriage “is between a man and a woman”.[11]
