That's clutching at straws: gei means art or craft, and was only ever
mapped to gay after gay changed from happy to homosexual. You've
confused causation and coincidence.
On 28/12/2011 10:06, john lewis wrote:
Perhaps in this case it wasn't a change of usage so much as adoption
of a Japanese word. Edmund de Waal mentions in his book (The Hare with
Amber Eyes, p298) that the word 'gei', written in roman script, was in
common usage during the American occupation of Japan after the end of
WW2.
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