For over a century the Navy was the worst branch for LGB people.

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Homer Baker arrest photo. (Image: Courtesy of Bill Lipsky Collection)

One hundred eleven years ago, a handsome 19-year-old sailor named Homer Baker with medium brown hair and blue eyes, just under 5’10” and weighing 158 and a half pounds, sailed into San Francisco harbor aboard the U.S.S. New Jersey where he’d been…