If the level of public tolerance in cities isn't really so high, though, you might wonder whether the cosmopolitan canopy is an exclusively urban phenomenon.
Nothing as horrifying has happened since, but emos say the bashing incidents have increased and the habitual harassment intensified, while several marches demanding tolerance in cities, including the capital, have degenerated into tense stand-offs.
The report called on the government, the Russian Football Union and the local Fifa World Cup organising committee to develop action plans for dealing with discrimination in football, cracking down on far-right fan groups and promoting tolerance in host cities.
"I think the police need to bring in a policy of zero tolerance in the city centre and more police officers in and around the city centre on patrol.
The left-wing mayoress of Mexico city organised a "tolerance festival", and the city council voted to ease restrictions on abortion.
From the late Victorian period until the 1930s, they were planted in their thousands for their tolerance to the city's smog-filled air.
We hoped to find somewhere kinder and gentler, but with the big city tolerance for others we were used to – no racism or homophobia.
Although medieval pilgrims to Jerusalem had traced what they considered Jesus' final steps, they had done so without public ceremony, in order not to strain the tolerance of the city's Muslim rulers and population.
It is a so-called house church, which in recent years had come to symbolize the government's wary tolerance for big-city congregations outside the constellation of state-controlled churches.
The general (if often variable — as in the sorry persecution of Lenny Bruce) tolerance that the city has long offered the daring and the free-thinking is what brought creative types to New York, and the freedom they enjoyed to do their work — and to live the kind of life that gave rise to their work — is what brought the city its cultural primacy.
