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A former Rutgers student wanted to “keep the gays away” after he used his Web cam to see Tyler Clementi kissing another man in their dorm room, a student testified today.

Text messages between Clementi’s roommate, Dharun Ravi, and a friend from high school revealed Ravi’s apparent discomfort with Clementi’s sexuality, according to the friend’s testimony.

Michelle Huang, a Cornell student, said Ravi sent a text message inviting her to tune in to a secret live streaming video of Clementi’s follow-up date with the man.

Two days earlier, on Sept. 19, 2010, Ravi had remotely accessed his Web cam and saw Clementi being intimate with the other man.

“I got so creeped out after Sunday,” he wrote, according to a record of Huang’s text messages. “Yeah keep the gays away.”

Ravi, described by friends as a computer whiz, told Huang that his computer could alert him when someone else was in his room

Ravi, in a text conversation, told Huang that he had set up the camera to catch a repeat performance and invited her to tune in.

“Do it for real,” Ravi wrote in a text message to Huang that was shown to jurors. “I have it pointed at his bed. And the monitor is off so he can’t see you. Be careful it could get nasty.”

Huang said Ravi told her that people were planning a “viewing party with a bottle of Bacardi and beer” to watch the Web stream that night.

Clementi got wind of the viewing-party plan and pulled the plug.

“It got messed up and didn’t work lol,” Ravi texted Huang the next day.

Hours later, Clementi updated his Facebook page to say he was jumping off the George Washington Bridge.

Huang later testified that after Clementi’s suicide, Ravi texted her that the talk of a viewing party was a joke.

“I guess he was quiet because he was depressed,” Ravi wrote.

Ravi had described the visitor to friends as an older man who looked kind of shady.

“He was older and creepy and def from the internet,” Ravi said, describing Clementi’s visitor.

Ravi’s trial entered its third week yesterday. The former Rutgers student is charged with bias intimidation and invasion of privacy and could face 10 years in prison

He is not charged in connection with Clementi’s death.