Looks like I stopped watching “Once Upon...” the same episode you did.
The gay themes run in just about every tv show.
With less than 2% of the population being gay and upwards of 90% being reoccurring or scattered in the scripts, on at least 1 episode a season for the rest, running out of tv shows that don’t shove this ‘enlightened’ theme in the audiences face.
The latest blatant show was “Shades of Blue”, where Ray Liotta’s character has a boyfriend, showed up 2nd or 3rd episode...
That show instantly jumped the Stinggay (shark)
It really is disappointing when you otherwise like a show.
What seems to happen is that the writers/producers feel that since they have our attention they should not miss the chance to re-educate us. They are so heavy handed that it just ruins the episodes.
That is exactly when I quit watching. The seem to have a 2nd or 3rd banana character have a gay scene or something and it is not even remotely connected to the plot.
I was watching this show last spring about and FBI agent in Israel and some plot and then they slipped in a Gay scene that had nothing to do with the plot and I gave it up.