Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26808654-20150620165912/@comment-26091156-20150621015834

Most of this thread seems not to be serious, but I just wanted to throw in my two sense that, since gems are sexless and monogendered, it's a little innacurite to charactarize them in terms of human sexuality. Heck, the ideas of "heterosexuality" and "homosexuality" aren't even universal to humans, let alone aliens. So while Pearl may be attracted to someone of the same gender and Garnet may be a same-gender relationship, I don't think it's entirely kosher to call them "lesbians", since physical sex doesn't really come into it. It might be more accurate to say that gems are "pansexual" or some other similar term.

Of course it's okay to say that they are lesbians in casual conversation, especially in contrast to someone saying they are straight (which is not only innacurate; it's ridiculous), but if we're being technical I think it's better to stay away from imprecice terminology.