Homosexuality in Sailor Moon

In a series with a largely female cast, relationships between the girls, real or imagined, are inevitable.

Canon

The following are characters with a lesbian sexual orientation that is made clear in the series canon.

Uranus and Neptune

• The only two openly gay senshi of the series. They are in a relationship from their very first appearance and are quite honest about it. Haruka flirts with other girls quite often and Michiru occasionally flirts with men but they are dedicated to each other. They later became baby Hotaru's "mama" and "papa".

Star Fighter

• Seiya's love for Usagi could be seen as straight but his natural form is female and his affections seem equally strong as Sailor Star Fighter. It should also be noted than in the manga it is very heavily implied that Star Fighter (who like all the Starlights merely cross dresses to disguise herself as a boy in the manga) has an unrequited love for Princess Kakyuu, this affection is also less heavily implied in the anime.

Fan Canon

The following is speculation among fans about possible homosexual/bisexual orientation among characters, through situation and innuendo, that is often noted in fan canon.

Mercury

• Ami Mizuno is a "late bloomer" when it comes to romance, causing some fans to interpret her relationships with the other girls as crushes. Certainly Dark Mercury of Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon could be seen as a jilted lover to Usagi. However she does show interest in boys on a less regular basis than the other inner senshi and was sweet on Nephrite's human form (as a parallel of the ambiguous relationship between Dark Mercury and Nephrite) in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon.

Jupiter

• Makoto Kino's inability to settle her attentions to just one man indicate to some fans that she is in the closet. In the anime she twice blushes fiercely after seeing Sailor Mercury's panties, but that is the only real evidence shown. She also appears to have a romantic crush on Haruka, at a point when she is aware of Haruka's true gender, in Cold Hearted Uranus? Makoto in Trouble but in truth she merely wanted to become like her (that is a strong, independant woman, not nessarily a lesbian). In Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon she eventually dates Motoki and accepts his proposal at the end of the Special Act.

Mars

• Rei Hino is pretty solidly straight in the anime but in Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon gets to be very close to Aino Minako. Many of their interactions can be interpreted as like those of lovers and they seem to make up for the absence of Uranus and Neptune in the anime with their relationship. This relationship can be considered fanon but many fans argue the only reason it isn't canon is because it was a children's show, hence the subtleties and ambiguities (e.g. trivial behaviors, special zoomups, etc. not supposed to be noticed by small children but by their parents watching with them) in their interactions as seen in the show. Rei is also shown to be close to Minako in the manga.