In reality, the history of same-sex relationships in USSR is quite interesting. Back in early 1900's it was a crime, following principles of religious morality. In 1926 Soviet authorities actually *decriminalised* voluntary same-sex relationships, one of the first such laws in Europe, based on scientific approach.

This didn't last long. With arrival of Stalin, science was dismissed and replaced by ideology, which considered homosexuality to be "bourgeois deviation" and repressions started again