https://pjmedia.com/lifestyle/2011/10/21/hot-in-cleveland-the-anti-two-and-a-half-men/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usWed, 10 Jun 2026 08:28:54 -0400<![CDATA[Recently an old friend, a straight guy, asked me what I thought of Glee.  I told him I&#8217;d never seen a second of it.  He was aghast.  A gay guy who&#8217;d never seen Glee?  I explained that I&#8217;d seen ads for it and that they had made my skin crawl.  To be sure, some time after that conversation I did run across a You Tube of a charming same-sex duet of “Baby, It&#8217;s Cold Outside,” which touched me both because it was the kind of thing I never imagined I&#8217;d see on network TV in my lifetime and because I loved the idea of young people today becoming acquainted with wonderful old standards from the Great American Songbook instead of the horrible crap they mostly listen to nowadays.  (Maybe they will develop taste, after all, I mused.)  Following that experience I actually did try to watch an episode of Glee, but bailed about a minute and a half in.  Yes, there is such a thing as gay culture and gay taste, but it doesn&#8217;t mean that all gay people like all the stuff that all gay people are supposed to like.  Far from it.]]>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:09:06 -0400<![CDATA[Bruce Bawer]]>https://pjmedia.com/bruce-bawer-2/2011/10/21/hot-in-cleveland-the-anti-two-and-a-half-men-n137439