Here in the US, hatred of gays is largely driven by fundamentalist Christians, nyet? Now, I know the Orthodox church never went completely out of style in the region, but they were under the USSR for a good few generations, which would tend to produce the expectation that they are not such religious fanatics as we find elsewhere. Obviously Putin and his bros hate gays with a passion, but there appears to be a large social movement in that direction also. I wonder why?

-- Mal

[font style="font-family:'Georgia','Baskerville Old Face','Helvetica',fantasy;" size=4 color=teal]But I think it has more to do with the ideal of masculinity and promoting patriarchy than it does with religion in that part of the world.

IIRC, when Lenin was in charge there were some LGBT people who openly worked for his government. When Stalin took over, things went downhill.[/font]

In about every way.

-- Mal