The comments were made in the context of political debate about same-sex civil unions in Romania.

Accept, Romania's national LGBT rights organisation, stated that they believed Hașotti's comments were a breach of anti-discrimination law and would report him to the National Council for Combating Discrimination.

[2] Puiu Hașotti was born on 14 June 1953 in Constanța, Romania.

[4][5] Hașotti graduated from the Faculty of History, University of Bucharest in 1976 and received his doctorate in historical sciences in 1995.

The year before he was a Fulbright Fellow at San Francisco State University.