@zenvelo Well, Putin won’t be there forever. 50 years ago our police in some states were castigating gay people, and black people for that matter. Under the law.
When HIV hit the scene in the 80’s Reagan and his government turned a blind eye for a long time in many ways, because it was a gay disease. You don’t want to upset the religious right, and many people don’t realize Reagan cared about that. Many gay men died, and so did people and children with hemophilia. They could have prevented so many of the deaths that were caused by using tainted hemophilia drugs.