Guests at a same-sex wedding in the early Soviet Union, 1921

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41737330

Turns out it was a sting operation, unfortunately.

The Sovs were actually comparatively good on LGBT rights in this period. Moved Russia from a very backwards country on the matter to as open as France. Just didn’t last - like so many things in the Soviet Union, it was not sustainably built on popular sentiment, and it could not resist a change in opinions from the ruling class (or rather, a change of rulers in the ruling class - hi Stalin).