[@The Spectre]

Per HIV/AIDS: Spain is probably the first country to have recognized it even exists, but understanding of it is still very young and weak. It's still just sort of referred to as the strange auto-immune disease that soldiers brought over from Africa. But I would advise asking [@gorgenmast] about the details of Spanish pool closures when it comes to this; because even I'm not sure.

As per LGBT in Europe, as Vilage said with the European continent still locked in a very imperial mindset then a movement strictly around gays may not receive much traction and I imagine there's a considerable degree of conservatism when it comes to that. This is a Europe after all where the Germans re-instated the Emperor and where in Russia the czar maintained power until his assassination in the 70's, followed by intense collapse of the Russian government as well as the state as a whole. I'd probably go out on a limb and suggest that a large-scale gay-rights movement might be treated in-part like advocacy of communism as much as mixing the races in marriage was in America in the 1960's, and American civil rights in this RP is still in the 40's or 50's.

Hell, I don't think there's even been a Sexual Revolution in the same sense as the 1960's counter-culture that could even be used to build up the importance of gays in a political sense.