The "Kremlin" club in Belfast, known as one of the most popular places for the LGBT community in Europe, was sold six years ago for 3 million pounds. At the entrance to the club, visitors are greeted by a statue of Lenin, familiar to many residents of the former USSR. Lenin is a symbolic figure for the LGBT community, as it was the Bolsheviks who first decriminalized homosexuality in the world. After the 1917 revolution in Russia, the article on male homosexuality was abolished, giving homosexuals a period of relative freedom.

At that time, same-sex "weddings" became possible. One of them took place in 1920 on Officer Street in the center of Petrograd, where official Georgy Andreev married a young factory worker named Denis Nesterенко, known as Dina. The second male wedding occurred in January 1921.

It was organized by a young party activist and Cheka agent Afanasy Shaur, who sought a successful career and wanted to make a name for himself. In 1920, he developed a plan to expose a conspiracy, claiming that former officers and lower ranks of the army and navy, all homosexuals, allegedly intended to undermine the moral foundations of the Red Army.

Shaur concocted that these former military men were hosting salons that were "counter-revolutionary gatherings." Under the guise of a male wedding, he decided to gather all the key "counter-revolutionaries" and arrest them with the help of the police. The event was attended by 95 people, including one woman dressed in a men's suit. All of them were arrested, but the case was ultimately closed, and the participants escaped with a fright.