Incriminating Testimony Surfaces Against Dharun Ravi

Neal Broverman

Neal Broverman is the Editorial Director, Print of Pride Media, publishers of The Advocate, Out, Out Traveler, and Plus, spending more than 20 years in journalism. He indulges his interest in transportation and urban planning with regular contributions to Los Angeles magazine, and his work has also appeared in the Los Angeles Times and USA Today. He lives in the City of Angels with his husband, children, and their chiweenie.

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March 06 2012 4:35 PM EST

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Dharun Ravi, the former Rutgers student accused of spying on his gay roommate, wrote "keep the gays away" in a text message shown at his trial.

Ravi was writing to his onetime friend Michelle Huang, who testified in the New Jersey trial Monday. Ravi is facing numerous charges, including bias intimidation, for secretly taping a sexual encounter between roommate Tyler Clementi and another man. Not long after discovering he was taped, Clementi ended his life.

Huang says that Ravi encouraged her to watch footage that he captured of Clementi and his partner, known only as M.B. Ravi was also planning a viewing party at which the footage would be shown.

Ravi told Huang via text that he was "creeped out" by the footage. When Huang suggested Clementi might have sex on Ravi's bed, Ravi wrote, "My webcam checks my bed, hahaha. Yeah, keep the gays away." Read more here.