He is I suppose referring to this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/opinion/homophobia-in-russ...
State homophobia in Russia is becoming a thing really fast these days.
State homophobia in Russia is becoming a thing really fast these days.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6173274
It is probably a bad law, but it certainly not criminalizing people for what they are doing with their genitalia in private. He was probably thinking about Saudi Arabia or Iran, but there is strangely little outrage against them.
In Russia, there is a big crackdown on everything LGBT-related, by the government and the church, and its getting worse every day.
A bit more here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Russia