Is there any country where being gay/bisexual etc is illegal? I was thinking maybe some really oppressive and primitive societies might.
There's actually very little evidence of this in Golarion- in fact, I'm actually trying to recall if there have even been characters whose biases on the subject even merited mention...
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To the best of my knowledge, there are no nations on Golarion where this is the case. People in a world where werewolves prowl the forest, goblins dwell in the sewers, and necromancers may be raising your deceased loved ones as mindless automatons in the local graveyard seem to have more important fears than who or what other people are getting turned on by.
However, it's a tabletop game. You can add that cultural bias to any country where you feel it would be an appropriate element, or perhaps as an unpleasant surprise in an otherwise pleasant region. Any country where laws are strict and invasive to personal privacy (Cheliax and Hermea come to mind) may have laws about what is permitted to go on in the bedroom. Any culture that places a high emphasis on reproduction (Orcish culture would be an example) could potentially frown upon sexual acts that don't have the potential of producing a child.
It's your game. Add in or take out what you deem appropriate. Hope this was helpful.
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It feels like Hermea might be a place where people are obligated to breed with similarly genetically superior individuals whether or not you want to, just to further Mengkare's experiments. But the dragon probably does not care who you sleep with for fun.
I was actually thinking you could have an evil druid/ranger guild that is against homosexuality due to it not producing children (and quite possibly, thinking it's against nature)
I think I recall an NPC in a published adventure somewhere (though this may have been added by the GM running it) who was facing some family trouble from being gay. He was a minor nobleman from Taldor, and while his family was technically alright with him being gay, they still wanted him to provide an heir, which he was distinctly uncomfortable with.
Taldor is very old-fashioned. If there's a place likely to be at least somewhat uncomfortable with LGBT stuff, it'd probably be Taldor (especially their older, stauncher nobility).
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That would actually be a reasonably important minor character in In Search of Sanity, the first book of the Strange Aeons adventure path.
Wren Elbourne was committed to the Briarstone Asylum by his family in Ardeal 'secondarily for treatment of his “self-abuse and refusal to wed,” but primarily because of the embarrassments his defiant bachelorhood threatened to bring upon his family.'
So, not explicitly due to his sexuality, and not because of any laws or cultural reasons.
I rather think the source of said antipathies are not going to be cultural wide, but in cases of lineages and related inheritances. Paizo has made a point of a light hand here.