Private Joshua Wood half starved and freezing,nursing the bullet wound from the previous summer’s fighting sitting in his hut at Valley Forge thought to himself”you know all this sacrifice will be worth it if homosexuals can marry and adopt kids!”
Little too early for the word “homosexual” in the late 1770s; it was coined in 1868 (along with “heterosexual”) by Austrian-born Hungarian journalist Karl-Maria Kertbeny.