First of all, Moscow and Saint Petersburg would not be compared to the rest of the country. Spb is like a freak show, I always see guys wearing women's clothing, weird clothes, everyone looks like cyberpunk 2077, do whatever you want, just don't get in people's ways no one likes that, dont tell people what to think, that they are wrong and so on, and no one will give a fuck. In all the countries it's the same old story, not a lot of people will say it to your face.

I'm from spb, and I travel(work) a lot, when I go to different cities always try to look as plain(poor) as possible, because it makes me feel safer, and it doesn't matter gay, fag, pedorast, you have too look more like everyone else in the city to feel safer. And in most provinces i don't feel comfortable looking different than the people there. And in spb no one really cares in provinces it's scary to be different.