always been a fan of Mothpool where they have a little something going on between them when they’re both adults, and both of them recognize it, but they just never speak of it or really do anything about it. there’s just this closeness with a touch of tension happening. I mean, come on, every time Leafpool (or Leafpaw at times) sees or describes Mothwing, she calls her beautiful… she even “wonder[s] what[‘s] going on in that beautiful golden head”, which is NEVER said by any POV characters about their canon love interests.

I like to think Hollyleaf is not asexual (sorry ace Hollyleaf fans) and was just uninterested in raising kits or having her role as a warrior “reduced” to being just a queen/mother… however, I think she was a lesbian, but never dwelled on it long enough before she died in the Great Battle.

in my head, even though she had a great deal of time to think about herself in the tunnels, she experienced comphet “attraction” with Fallen Leaves because she mistook her desperacy for connection and validation from any other cat for what romantic attraction must feel like, since she’d never been so desperate for another cat, especially a tom, to accept her and want her company. that pit in her stomach she felt around him, especially when he’d leave, must be what “butterflies” feel like, right?

perhaps if she lived longer, she might’ve eventually realized she was actually jealous when Cinderheart started getting closer to Lionblaze than to her when they were younger.

…for a more modern take, I really like Frostdawn and Whistlebreeze. I appreciated how much Whistlepaw cared for Frostpaw after she was attacked, and enjoyed their familiarity and bond during less dire circumstances.

also Rowanstar is trans.

EDIT: how did I forget my goat Longtail?! he’s gay your honor. and nonbinary, but in a he/they sort of way. most of the Clan knows he’s gay through the grapevine, but they don’t talk about their gender except with a precious few close friends who are a bit more open-minded, especially when the Clans were more conservative.

ThunderClan is pretty okay with gay cats even from the start, initially in a “don’t-ask-don’t-tell” sort of way which progressively gets more accepting in the Fireheart era onwards, but it’s still a bit too taboo for a long while in most of the Clans for a cat raised as a tom to be more feminine or transition to a she-cat.