who lived together...
so what you're saying is they were room mates?
[Sincere] As relationship anarchists though, even though we understand the homophobia of calling obvious lovers friends we don't entirely hate it. Labels are, after all, just labels. What people agree to and what actions etc they choose to agree to is up to them.
For example one of our partners and us call each other both friends and partners, so the agreements and what we're okay with are more important than the label, at least to us.