the lesbian fox news warned you about

so I was listening to music and got this message… at first I assumed that my boyfriend sent the wrong person a message asking for toilet paper, but when i got up to bring him some i saw his phone on the bed and realized 

it's never explicitly stated that steven and connie are in love or dating, or that stevonnie is nonbinary, we can tell because of how close the two of them always are and from stevonnie's androgynous traits and other characters using the right pronouns for them.

they never use the term 'lesbians' for ruby and sapphire, or pearl and rose, or say they are and were in love, but with how intimate they are with each other and how they talk about being together, it's impossible to miss that they are. and garnet's wedding isn't ever described as a 'lesbian wedding', it's just a wedding, we know the two characters getting married are lesbians.

No, I don't know how many countries. It is probably not 17.

The interesting thing is that they treat the (presumably) straight characters the same as the queer ones that way. Greg never calls his relationship with Rose anything specific outside of "when I started dating your mother." Vidalia says "It's just been me and Yellowtail for a while" while picturing her wedding ring.

And the people who DO use specific words for these relationships are often wrong, intentionally misleading, or assuming. Greg calling Alexandrite his wife in a ruse for the Maheswarans. Uncle Andy asking which of the "girls" has gotta be "the wife" when he sees Greg has a kid (and mistakenly identifying Garnet). Ronaldo condescendingly saying Connie gets to use Rose's sword because "she's your girlfriend." Steven loudly saying Kiki and Ronaldo are "involved in a romantic relationship" when they're lying about it to end the Restaurant War.

There HAVE been just a few instances of explicitly named relationships, like Shep being named as Sadie's new partner, or Ronaldo saying he has a girlfriend (who turns out to miraculously exist). But it's notable that they aren't tiptoeing around the queer relationships refusing to define them while having no qualms about using specific language for the straight ones. The show repeatedly lets love be the important part and just shows us the love. What we call it isn't as important as how they show it.

And as a bonus, some of the people in this show who do stuff like getting married and living together as one entity don't identify as women. They're she/her characters, and present in a way the audience will interpret as overall femme/female, but they aren't women and wouldn't have any particular connection to terms like "girlfriend" or "wife." No one ever says "lesbians," but no one ever says "straight" either. It's beyond words.