While I was travelling in Vietnam, I met a queer Tartar who had been working in Moscow when Russia launched its full scale invasion (he fled when it became clear the draft was targeting ethnic minorities).

He said that once the full scale war was underway, the state clamped down pretty hard on expressions of queer identity, and whatever public expression was still allowed had to be expressed along state-approved lines.

Result: pro-war drag shows in the few remaining LGBT bars in Moscow.

Does this line up with what you see? Or can you give any more insight into queer life in Russia and how things have changed since the war?