Once Upon a Time, with the characters from all the Disney fantasy movies related in a complex genealogy, was almost entirely heterosexist. There was a blink-and-you-miss-it lesbian romance (with the couple vanishing immediately after their kiss) and a few very brief gay-subtext romances. One of the most significant was between Gideon, son of the Rumpelstiltskin and Belle, and Roderick, his cellmate in the Black Fairy's dungeon. They were played by Anton Starkman and Mason McKenzie as children, and Grayson Gabriel and Giles Mathey as adults.
That's four actors to check.
I've already profiled Anton Starkman.
Giles Matthey is extremely ugly, and straight.
There are too many Grayson Gabriels to find the actor.
That leaves Mason McKenzie. At least he has a chest (above), a nice backside (left), and no tattoos to date.
Mason was born in 2005 in Barrie, Ontario, about an hour north of Toronto. After many tv commercials, he broke into scripted tv in two 2017 episodes of the soap When Calls the Heart, as the bullying nephew of evil railroad executive Jeremy Wyatt. (Nikolas Ducik, left played his brother, Earl).
Then came the Once Upon a Time episode, a thriller, and two romcoms: Frozen in Love (2018) and Love Under the Rainbow (2019), not to be confused with Under the Rainbow, about the actors who played Munchkins in The Wizard of Oz.
You played the kids of the romantic leads, not the guys themselves, but still, it's not looking good for your gay representation score, Mason Baby.
In a 2019 episode of Project Blue Book, UFO researcher Hynek (Aidan Gillen, right) handles the case of a scoutmaster who disappeared after his troop witnessed a UFO. Was he abducted by the Men in Black? Mason plays one of the scouts.
Another Aidan dick.
In a 2020 episode of The Baby-Sitters' Club, Mary-Anne is hesitant about approaching her crush, so one-shot gay character Alex (David Raynolds, not Reynolds) tells her about his crush on a boy at theater camp. Mason plays Toby, one of his friends, but not the crush.
More after the break
In a 2022 episode of Batwoman, Mason plays Noah, son of an unnamed hunter (Ryan Handley, left) killed by Mary Hamilton as she is channeling the supervillain Poison Ivy.
Mason's last role listed on the IMDB is the romcom A Pickleball Christmas (2025): Luke (James Lafferty) tries to save his family's beloved tennis club with the help of an "arrogant" female pickleball coach. At Christmas. Mason plays a snobbish pickleball star whose partner is his mom -- sort of a queer code.
One minor gay-subtext and a second vaguely queer coded role. Rather a flimsy record. But I'll check for nude photos anyway, and then Mason's social media to see if he is gay in real life.
I couldn't find any nude photos of our Mason McKenzie, or the other one, who plays football for Boston College. So how about Mason Cook of Speechless?
As of this writing, Mason is a student at Arizona State University, studying sports journalism, which doesn't strike me as the most common major for gay men. He's a member of Phi Psi fraternity, so there are lots of photos on his social media hugging frat brothers, but otherwise I don't see a lot of buddy bonding.
High school graduation cruise with his arm around a duck-lipped girl. I'm going to say our boy is straight.
Although he doesn't mind guys complimenting his physique, and at 5'7", he is a bona fide addition to the Short Guy Brigade.
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