Is your mom gay
There’s a long-running joke in my family that my mom is gay. When I tell people this, they assume that her and my father are divorced or that he is otherwise out of the picture. He is not. The joke has evolved in a way that we’ve gotten her comfortable enough to self-identify as bi-curious, which I think is really rad and cool for her.
My mother grew up in Queens and went to an art and plan high school in Manhattan where she was exposed to all different kinds of lifestyles. She then went to Bard College (gay) where she kissed her girl friends (gay) and studied art (gay), all while dating my father. Though she’s exhibited gay behavior her entire life, it wasn’t until about that we started asking questions. Here’s why:
She has her MFA in Creative Writing from Sarah Lawrence College
Going to Sarah Lawrence College is one of the gayest things you could do, and more people would perform it if it wasn’t so fucking expensive. As an adult, my mom went back to college and got her MFA at Sarah Lawrence and was a graduate assistant on the literary magazine.
When I came out to her, she responded by saying “I used to make out with my girl friends in college all the time!”
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You're Mom Gay
About
"You're Mom Gay" is a satirical insult which typically uses the intentionally grammatically incorrect phrase as a form of shitposting online.
Origin
The earliest known instance of the phrase and beginning of the common usage as a joke comes from Pyrocynical video "Rush B – CS:GO" from June 16th, in which Pyro's friend NFKRZ responds to another player with "Because your mom gay" at the mark(shown below)
Spread
On August 27th, , an anonymous 4chan user responded to a thread on /bank/ with the expression "you're mom gay" (shown below).
On September 27th, Urban Dictionary user submitted a definition for the group of words (shown below).
On October 8th, , Instagram user largetrap posted a video with subtitle edits to one of the first scenes in the video gameCuphead where the one of the Elder Tea Kettle's lines is replaced with "You'er mom gay"(shown below)
On October 13th, , Redditor AutismZone submitted a screen-captured image from the production Kung Fu Panda with the words "ur mom gay lol" edited on to a scroll to /r/MemeEconomy (shown below, left). On December 2nd, YouTuber Shivix uploaded footage of a teenager exiting a closet while looking at the camera
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