Actually the OP wasn't about women or gays, it was about how one might prosecute crimes in space, or if currently, one could get away with committing crimes in space. If you're in the ISS, could you ask for asylum in a member country? If you're in a US spacecraft, I would presume, that like with an embassy, you are on "US soil".
There may already be legal documentation covering this, but I've never heard of any.