Zero rights and protections for being intersex, fucked in terms of healthcare, "woke" shit everywhere & homosexuality is seen as a haha funny joke, look at those entertaining gay clowns kind of thing, like I'm expected to perform. I know if anyone knew I was gay I will be harassed, just because it's not the "angry religious mob stoning me" fantasy everyone expects doesn't mean it won't be harassment. I already get looks for looking different and have people act surprised if I claim I'm straight, even though I'm single and make no hints to being homosexual whatsoever, because they are stereotyping assholes.

Yes I believe so. Remember Russia is big, and what annoys me is LGBT "activists" claiming all of Russia is the same as super religious rural territories, when most people don't give a shit. St. Petersburg and Moscow are likely to be fine in terms of safety for being gay, hell even Asian Russia where I lived was pretty safe.

As long as you don't plan to go on extremely sexual pride parades and all, but that goes without saying. The impression I get is that most "homophobic" Russian people don't actually hate homosexuality itself, they just hate the exhibitionism and attention seeking of Pride and the modern LGBT.

But if you just hold hands or mention it casually? Most won't care, I don't think. You might get the odd immature kid or older person who gets too fussy about it, but that goes for anywhere.