This hatred has been carefully cultivated for decades of casual homophobia, transphobia and other assorted bigotry. I was dumb like that in my teenage years, too - and there was a lot more cultural (if you can call it that) osmosis with russia, back then. It took me realising my own bisexuality to get away from that hatred.

For your average russian, this is just normal. They don’t really see anything wrong with that, because they don’t know any alternatives.