Mu Perspectives
Mu Perspectives presents the ideas and personal writings of Mu Committee Members and Staff Writers in blog format. These essays do not represent the collective policies or positions of Mu, which are best summarized by our principles here, and elsewhere on our site.
Our lead authors: Brian Ribbon, Jim Burton, Percy Shelley, Tommaso Battista.
Jim Burton
Last week, I found and shared an article by Scott Yenor for First Things, a long-running Christian-Conservative journal out of America. Yenor is a Lutheran; he is also a member of a “secretive, men-only Christian Nationalist organization”, yet much of his retelling of gay history and respectability politics was surprisingly agreeable and uncannily accurate. It was almost as if the married father of five had been a fly on the wall, during this entire episode of militant fa...
Mu Lowdown article by Jim Burton.
As I detailed in my previous Lowdown article, America has a strange fixation with punishing individuals for exhibiting what it considers to be unusual sexual proclivities. Often, this punishment follows many decades after an offender has served their sentence. The state also turns a blind-eye to registry-assisted murders, which are are now so common, another has transpired since I wrote my article last month. But this hysteria has also seemingly taken a hold of American parents who seek to punish their own...
Brian Ribbon
Much of my writing on MAP issues is focused outward, looking at how horribly the world treats us. Given the shocking extent of misunderstanding, oppression, murder, and all the other nastiness, this is hardly surprising. However, sometimes it's important to look inward. In a recent essay on Newgon Wiki, I asked MAPs why our community is so apathetic. In this relatively brief article, I will be discussing ways in which we need to chill.
Contact stances
One of the major divides in the MAP community is 'pro-choice' (or pro-contact) versus 'anti-contact...