The classified project I worked on in the eighties received a courtesy briefing by FBI agents in the early eighties. They showed us checks written on a KGB bank account to various groups. They included the anti-war movement, the gay movement, of course the American communist parties. If you had a gay group of more than six people and you got into the news you’d receive a check ranging in size from a few hundred dollars for a tiny group to ten thousand dollars for a bigger organization. In some cases, I’m sure these checks allowed people to pursue their dreams instead of working to put food on the table.
This is probably why Putin has fought so hard against gay ideology in Russia. The intent of it was to destroy the west by destroying the family. Russia is in demographic decline and the last thing they need is gay ideology. Plus, there is not satisfying gay ideology. Once they got gay marriage, in mere months it the new thrust was to force Christians to bake cakes, plan weddings, etc. Once they’d done that it would be to force parents to turn over their children for grooming. And, while that sounds ridiculous now, gay marriage sounded just as ridiculous forty years ago.
They spent even more taking over the Democrat party and academics.