You don't have nearly enough ability to make them afraid. You may be able to wield enough violence to save your life from an immediate threat. But not a determined campaign

As I said before: Afghanistan, Iran.

You simply do not have the ability to wield violence on a scale that would actually make them afraid enough to give you equal rights--rather than increase their desire to exterminate you and people that believe the way you do--so you need to convince them.

Gay people got acceptance because they started becoming visible in popular media, people started publicly coming out of the closet, and that humanized gay people. It's easy to hate gay people with they're just a concept; it's much harder to hate gay people when it's your neighbor that's been helping with your backyard BBQ for the last decade. We went from gay people getting fired simply for being gay to marriage equality in less than 30 years. (Yes, Trump et al. are trying to undo that, but at this point support for marriage equality is 68%, and even though it's going down with Republicans, they're still at 40%.)