If you think LGBT activists go around saying this then I'm guessing you're likely a homophobe. Explaining to children what homosexuality is, on the other hand, and explaining to them that there's nothing wrong with them if they discover they're gay can only be a good thing.... Unless you're a homophobe.

Indeed, and none of the prosecutions under this have been for "explicit sexual depictions" AFAIK.
Plenty of people can be uncomfortable of explicit "hetero" depictions in public, that issue is totally distinct.
Fixating on specific sex acts not inherent to "heteros" or "homos" in the first place, also is besides the point.
Really just sad for Russia, because this can only alienate those "homos" and motivate them to leave Russia,
or worse, cultivate negative habits like drugs or whatever due to being shut out from normal decent society.
Clearly undermines efforts to deal with worse forms of homophobic reaction, e.g. beatings and discrimination.

I really do feel the Western mainstream media-fed reaction to this was horribly counterproductive though,
and definitely not motivated by a desire for constructive betterment of "homos"' situation in Russia,
rather just a self-righteous villification of Russia for very different aims having nothing to do with this topic.

You wrong, because you judging it in EU point of view. Not from Russian citizen pov.

i just bookmarked this thread of yours while i was banned cause i wanted to say that i hate your country.
you live in one of the most ruthless and oligarchic societies ever yet you seem pleased with your master to be playing well in the geopolitical esphere as it that was of any benefit for other than the oligachs themselves. Russian people are the most dumb and despicable people ive come across in my life. pure hive minded people. they also lacked culture, education and respect even in most basic scale. racists by nature due to said pasition in the trophic chain of the geopolitical power, these fellow humans will never have my respect until a massive change in the mindset of theirs occur.
Russia s been home of some of the top scientist and free thinkers ever lived. which shows the potential within them, which only enbiggens the shame i feel for them today.

Yes, we love UK too.

good for you.im not from UK

Then you've lied in profile. But its OK, people who speak bullshit are often liers and chickens.

Wow, I can't believe how people can hate an entire race like this. Just because the education, culture and  values are different from Western society doesn't mean that they have a lack of it. You claim that they're racist, but you are being racist to Russians. Also, while I am against Putin's decision to restrict freedom of speech, and certainly wouldn't want him as my head of state, I can understand why he is popular among Russians. He helped  change Russia from a poor, faltering country into a huge political and economic superpower.

Wait, did that guy just get banned again?
For that specific post? (or lying in profile?)
Or some other degenerate screed in some other thread?

But anyways this thread itself disproves all that troll's psycho ravings, alot of Russians post here and converse productively with people from other cultures with different perspectives and understandings of things, the whole point of the thread is to facilitate cross cultural understanding, which I think it has done successfully.