I don’t know if Putin is truly a cultural conservative or not - but one thing he definitely realizes, and it comes from his Communist background and KGB training - the “Gay Rights” movement is an organized political group, with clear political aims. Putin is treating them as such.
He understands its style well - the cry for “better treatment for oppressed minorities” while working their political organization into the the halls of government was used everywhere by the Soviets. This time it is the West who will use this tactic against him and his country.
exactly Putin under communism knew that to destroy the west they would have to use homosexuality.
He knew this danger and now sees that the homostapo have gain root here and is defending other Russia from the weapon they used back in 1963, rule 26