Institutionalizing Homphobia in the classroom

Today a friend and a fellow teaching assistant, J, called me. He explained that after lecture this morning (when the professor teaches), Professor M came up and told him he was going to move 5 students out of his class and into the electronic sessions (don't even get me started on the fact that he's willing to teach electronically). He asked if that was okay. J said it was fine but asked why. Professor M told him: "they're frat and sorority types, you know?" J looked blankly at the M, because he did, in fact, not know. M repeated again, "you know? You know." And then M walked away and put the 5 students in another teaching assistant's already overloaded class. The important thing to know in this situation is that J is legibly queer, and the only reason that any of us can come up with for why sorority and frat types (and only them) want out of J's class is that they're homophobic. This is further supported by the fact that M has made comments disparaging underepresented groups from queer people to individual ethnic groups in lecture so that the students have no question about his views of these groups. Professor M supports and affirms the students homophobia, and they know that he will.