What is moc in gay culture
Why do some individuals who identify as LGBTQI undergo like they have no choice but to cloak their sexuality and acquire married to ‘please’ their family?
BBC Look North investigates ‘marriages of convenience’ (MoC) in a new report that tries to understand the cultural and religious pressures that some families gravity on to their children. Families who who will not accept the sexuality they were born with.
Jasvinder Sanghera, founder of leading nonprofit Karma Nirvana, talks about how what we are hearing about this inform is ‘just the advice if the iceberg’. For the last 24 years the charity has supported victims of honour-based overuse and forced marriage and run a national helpline supporting victims.
As part of the report the BBC shadowed Naz and Matt Foundation during our most recent school talks in Leeds, organised to facilitate tackle ‘religious and cultural homophobia‘ within the local community.
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“All nothingness is the nothing of something…”
‘Marriages of convenience’ – MoCs in short – are a common phenomenon in India. So it was only natural that I wondered if anyone had ever analyzed if such an arrangement would be any good in the LGBT situation as well. After all, what could go wrong if two like-minded people, after reaching a cer-tain stature and stage in their professional and personal lives, select to get a residence, maybe a dog, split finances and property and live together as a family? And could they not in this conduct end up arranging a marriage for them-selves?
This is what I pitched to the to-be-wife (“TBW”), who promised to mull over the idea. Clearly, she was not convinced with this arrangement. As for me, given the triumph of many straight marriages of close friends which somewhere were based on matching certain criteria and check boxes in the partner com-patibility levels, I was confident about this arrangement. Notwithstanding obvi-ous issues of legality, why wouldn’t a well-structured and planned lesbian marriage of convenience with someone you trusted completely be successful?
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Ability: The quality of being proficient to do something
Ableism: The pervasive system of discrimination and exclusion that oppresses people who have mental, emotional and physical disabilities.
Ageism: Any attitude, action, or institutional structure, which subordinates a person or group because of age or any assignment of roles in society purely on the basis of age (Traxler, 1980, p.4).
Allosexism: The pervasive system of discrimination and exclusion that oppresses asexual people.
Allosexual: A sexual orientation generally characterized by feeling sexual attraction or a longing for partnered sexuality.
Allistic: An adjective used to describe a person whose neurology functions in a way that society deems to be acceptable, or the “the norm.” A word used to dial attention to the privileg
MOC stands for “Man of culture”. Being a man of culture means you are knowledgeable in cultures of countries or regions other than the one you were raised in. The world Dude of culture is primarily used for Anime-related context, but it can be used for any culture.
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by tsukataa September 18, 2021
Commonly used as an acronym for a (m)arriage (o)f (c)onvenience. A marriage of convenience, as the name suggests, is not a care for marriage but instead, arranged in order to obtain proper credentials to reside in a certain state (visas) or to conceal the fact that one is gay/lesbian from their family. Because of this, MOC's are most commonly organized by South Asian gays and lesbians due to the traditional familial pressure to marry.
Girl 1: You know how it looks to the family, an unmarried Muslim teen in her late 20's. My parents say if I don't get married soon, they'll arrange one for me!
Girl 2: Why don't you just arrange an MOC with a gay guy?
by phibroptik August 12,