It may be because I only met Russian immigrants but every Russian person I talked to has been accepting of LGBT, and I met like 20+ of em. The gov may be heavily against them, but that doesn't neccessarily correlate to the opinions of the poeple. Look at Turkey, used to very progressive until the turn of the millenium, where right wing parties have started to find voters in the large turkish diasporas. As the currently ruling right wing party has become more authoritive, less and less people were able to display acceptance and it has become a taboo topic in societyIt's so great that more and more countries legalize LGBTQ+ marriage and accept LGBTQ+ people. But some governments do the exact opposite. Russia's supreme court classified the "international LGBTQ+ movement" as "extremist" in november 2023. And now we have the first lawsuit/case based on this decision. The manager and the artistic director of an LGBTQ+ bar are in custody and will face a sentence of 10 years in prison if the court thinks they are "guilty".
Another example would be Serbia, my parent's home country. The majority of the population isn't political and doesn't particularly care about whether someone's gay or not. It's the very loud, very right wing, political minority that's anti LGBT