Quick question, I know this sentence is, well, odd to say the least as I seen this on twitter. Anyways, with あなたのお母さん同性愛者, shouldn’t there be a は in between お母さん and 同性愛者, as は indicates “Is”?
I think that sentence has more problems than a missing は 
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は doesn’t actually indicate ‘is’, だ or more politely です is the ‘to be’ copula. What は does is mark the topic. Often, though, particles can disappear in casual speech, which you will find a lot of on Twitter.
Also, what @acm2010 said.
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Really? Correcting grammar on twitter?
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Yeah, you got that right. I got this from Pewdiepie’s twitter, and only by knowing the words “your” and “mom” I could easily guess the rest.
So basically if I’m speaking/writing a short sentence to my Japanese friends, I can omit the は just like です?
Its not uncommon to see, but since you’re a learner, they may just assume you don’t know any better.
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You can still understand it because the sentence is very short XはY(だ) and you can still distinguish the word boundaries because you have a kana さん in between. But as a general rule omitting a だ (not です!) is grammatical, but omitting は might turn your sentence into gibberish if you don’t know what you are doing
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Yeah, I guess I am, I just finished chapter 6 of Genki 1, so I’m not entirely the brightest
おまえの母さんはレズだ！
That sounds more natural. Really juvenile though. 同性愛者 sounds too formal. Others here have explained the omission of は well enough,
Is that supposed to be Sans, by the way?
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But wait…if I’m recalling correctly, the original meme is “your mom gay” so perhaps the omission of は (“is”) was purposeful? Hmm…
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Yeah, its a shitty sans
I haven’t thought about that, however some people are explaining that b/c this is a short sentence, I can omit は in general
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