Lol, there have been gays in the military as long as there has been a military. The Spartans were famous for it. Alexander the great, Lawrence of Arabia......Baron Friedrich Wilhelm Augustus von Steuben- maybe you are not familiar with his name,he served as Inspector General and Major General of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He is credited with teaching the Continental Army the essentials of military drill and discipline, and helping to guide the United States towards victory against the British. He served as General George Washington’s chief of staff in the final years of the war. He originally served in the Prussian Army, before he was forced to resign because of being homosexual. George didn’t have a problem with this and hired him on to train the troops at Valley Forge. If he hadn’t, we might still be a colony to Great Britain.

Even Churchill famously said "Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."