I beg to differ.
They have no more rights today than they ever had.
They suffer fewer acts of discrimination now than ever before and they have more political power than they merit by their number.
They don't have any more moral rights. The way I interpret it, in biblical times, they had a right not to be abused and every right a righteous person had. They were stoned to death, when caught/exposed, but that was their legal system aligned to the moral law. And stoning applied to other sinners, adultery, grave disobedience by their young, probably other cases. Some of it seems primitive to me, a woman sexually attacked in a field, if she yelled it was her attacker; otherwise they both were stoned, I think it required two witnesses. And the tests the priests used to determine some crimes. But God was all powerful then as now.
But evidently this gay lawyer committed suicide by self-immolation because of his environmental activism, not gay rights. In a Brooklyn park. I guess I'm not going looking for just what he was upset with the environment. If it isn't a hoax, if he'd have asked Alexa about chemtrails, he would have gotten the conspiracy answer until amazon and/or apple intervened and changed it.
Do we apply a numbers test to political power (although I do agree with you but so do other groups)? The Amish have religious rights and exemptions because of their beliefs. Their numbers are small as a percentage of the general population.
But your points are valid; I suppose it depends on TPTB or how you look at things.
They no longer have equal rights; they have special privileges.