awakening
I think that your professors have been awakened to their own feelings and biases. This made them uncomfortable.
While I agree that homophobia is emotionally charged and reactionary, I feel that heterocentric is not. Heterocentric is neutral in it's flavor. So if a person feels emotionaly charged by this term I feel that it reveals the underlying homophobic undertones the professor who is consciously or unconsciously adding transferrence into his scholastic criticism.
As a counter criticism you could invite them to search within themselves with curiosity for the possiblity that transferrence did color their criticism as an exercise in intellectual insight.
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Love and affirmation,
Forrester Tongpa Nyi (formerly Ash Phoenix, faeries evolve! ) 
When you come to know that your entitlement to joy is a given, All that remains is the exploration of the many different ways to let it in
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