The Old Town skyline may give a fairytale feel but Tallinn has a modern, busy nightlife. Quality hotels may not be plentiful but they’re there too. Trying to be as un-Soviet as quickly as possible. Despite being viewed as the most liberal and tolerant of the Baltic capitals, Tallinn – like Riga and Vilnius still has a long way to go toward catching up with neighbouring Scandinavian countries and Western Europe when it comes to the atmosphere surrounding homosexuality. Homosexuality was not legalised in Estonia until 1992. Though gay tourists coming to Tallinn may feel a marked difference in Estonia in terms of the country’s openness toward gays, travellers generally have little to fear in terms of gay bashing. Nonetheless, discretion is a good defence and one still employed by most of Tallinn’s gay-oriented  nightclubs, the number of which continues to grow, and there is no doubt that Tallinn outshines both Riga and Vilnius (perhaps both combined) when it comes to gay nightlife.