Yep. I've had Berlin on mind and the way it was fairly tolerant pre-WW2. It had the era's equivalent of a queer center. All burned in that famous book burning p

Yep. I've had Berlin on mind and the way it was fairly tolerant pre-WW2. It had the era's equivalent of a queer center. All burned in that famous book burning photo that, until recently, rarely had that context.[0] The person who ran it was Jewish and gay, so he probably gave people at his institute this same warning early on. I know Russia has some nasty laws on the books, but I assume international cities there are like international cities anywhere. And that can turn real quick when people start looking for someone to blame. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissenschaft https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institut_f%C3%BCr_Sexualwissen...