I was mostly thrown by the fact that Zander came out to Drayden in a required scene (which felt significant), and then after the other two scenes, we went to the retirement beach party where Red was super casual about being into guys (and he knew Zander was into guys, too, which was a surprise, but treated as a known fact).
That's where I felt like I was missing something. There wasn't a precedent for Red or the MC to be casual about liking guys or admitting it to each other, but suddenly they're talking about it like nothing happened. At least, that's what I read.