I never even heard homosexuality brought up in an official context except for in the little welcome speech the drill instructors gave us when we first arrived for boot camp, when the chief said he didn't give a s*#~ if we were gay, straight, Jewish, Muslim, or a bunch of other things, because all that mattered then was that we were sailors. That was after DADT got overturned, but before it was officially ended. As both a homosexual and a transgendered person, I never brought up my gender or sexuality. I preferred to keep quiet about that, as I enlisted to serve, not to prove any sort of point about gays or transgendered people.
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The biggest difference I've come across is some of us very deliberately saying things like, 'that's so Alternative Lifestyle' instead of the old 'that's so gay' line.
Seriously, the biggest difference is the absolute dearth of gay jokes--they're very simply gone.
We older Soldiers are typically professional enough to deliberately think about it and effect the necessary change to operations and language. The younger men and women seem almost to a T unaffected.