Baker said that "I love Polari, but hopefully, the narrow-minded social conditions that led to its creation will never require anything like it to happen in this country again.
"[5] On 6 November 2017, Baker was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA).
[6] In 2018, he received a staff award for work on the language of Polari and its contribution to uncovering and highlighting LGBT heritage.
The Polari Mission was a multi-disciplinary collaboration between artists and specialists in the fields of linguistics and computer science including Baker and Tim Greening-Jackson.
The aim was to raise awareness about Polari, one of the world’s most endangered languages, a bold yet secretive part of Gay history.