Well you must be wondering why I would pay attention to this, first of all am not anti-gay and I believe people can do as they please to the extent that it is not infringing on other people’s rights. I live in Kenya, a young democracy which is about 57yrs old located in East Africa, our reputation precedes us and yes corruption is the main source of income (yes you will pay cops for walking in public-sic!). Foreign donors are even surprised at how quickly people steal public funds, hundreds of millions of dollars of covid19 have been stolen in a span of 4 months.
Enough about our vices, well we have managed to make some progress on improving the constitutional aspect of our country (at least on paper), we had a ten years anniversary yesterday since we voted in a new constitution. I was talking to a LGBT activist yesterday and he was telling me how they are oppressed. In Kenya LGBT is illegal, but I have never heard someone who was jailed for doing their own thing behind there closed doors, in short the government does not encourage LGBT, but it does very little to stop them and this has been working well for both parties.
We derive meaning from omission and not addition, we have a very short concentration span and with our limited cognitive ability we have to choose what matters and what doesn’t and we do that by omitting most of the things. The law since it’s a human system thrives on omission and not inclusion, we can tell that by the rising tension in American universities where every minority group wants to be included in the law. We cannot include everything in the law, imagine someone who thinks farting in public is an offence and people who do it should serve sometime in jail.
Only two rights are not included in the LGBT society in Kenya, that is freedom of expression, at least not openly (I would not want to see a man in yoga pants walking down the streets of Nairobi) and freedom to marry, this isn’t a bad deal considering how young our democracy is, but here they are chanting they are oppressed
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I once had a teacher provide a definition of freedom that said teacher heard from a mentor long ago, so I don't have a source for the quote, but I think it's one to live by. It was something like "in order for everyone to be free, one person's freedom must end where the next person's freedom begins." Considering this, in a free country, only actions that harm other individuals should be controlled by laws (as opposed to actions that offend individuals, for instance). This would certainly agree with your comment that "law thrives on omission." However, democracy isn't necessarily a synonym for freedom, but oppression is an antonym. Given that, perhaps they are chanting because they are oppressed.