Since the referendum in Russia has approved of Putin’s changes to Constituition, letting him stay in power until 2035, redefining marriage as “union of man and woman” and the government literally having talks about banning rainbow and comparing rainbow flags to nazi symbolism, it’s not been great for the LGBT+ community here.
In addition to that, we had the awful “Gay Propaganda” law since 2013 and the number of hate crimes towards LGBT+ Russians has increased greatly since then, and it’s likely to increase even more now.
Remember when Bioshock was like “if you choose not to kill any of these innocent little girls, you get a nice cutscene at the end of the game where they’re grateful for you not killing them” and every gaming publication put it in their “TOP 10 HARDEST CHOICES IN GAMING” lists