"Thankfully, Europeans are far more grown up about such things these days. Unlike the thoroughly homophobic US."
...well, Western Europe. Eastern Europe, not so much.
There's also the little issue of increasingly popular xenophobic nationalist parties.
So let's save the stone throwing until you're out of the glass house.
"...everyone finally shut up, and the audience could enjoy the beginning of the Anatevka Pogram in peace."