About

Gay Immigrant Muslim Furry Romance refers to a viral tweet promoting a gay immigrant Muslim furry romance to "help resist" Donald Trump's administration during his first week as United States President in January 2017. The tweet has sparked numerous jokes, parodies and memes on social media since it was shared that year in a similar tone as the Solo Polyamorous Hijabi Amputee meme. The tweet notably resurfaced in January 2025 after Trump won the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election.

Origin

On January 13th, 2017, the X^[1] / Twitter page for Slate posted an illustration of a furry cheetah looking at a vintage camera for sale alongside a link to its article titled "How Can Literature Resist Islamophobia? One Writer Answers: Gay Muslim Furry Romance," which was captioned, "Looking for a book to help resist Trump? Try this gay immigrant Muslim furry romance." The tweet (seen below) amassed more than 4,700 likes and 5,400 reposts in eight years.

The novel mentioned in the tweet is written by Kyell Gold, titled The Time He Desires. Gold told Slate^[4] in the article that he wrote this book "in part as a response to the wave of Islamophobia in this country,” explaining in an author’s note, “never dreaming at the time that it would crest as it has now.”

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The tweet gained viral attention on social media over the following years as people reposted the original tweet and illustration, especially during Donald Trump's 2024 United States Presidential Election campaign.

For instance, on September 2nd, 2023, X^[2] user @NopeSignal posted the Domino Effect meme with a screenshot of the gay immigrant Muslim furry romance tweet and Donald Trump's mugshot at the end of the domino (seen below), which garnered roughly 190,000 views and 8,600 likes in two years.

On January 13th, 2025, X^[3] user @CursedModernism posted the furry romance tweet, celebrating eight years since Slate made the original post (seen below), which reignited the meme's popularity on the platform, amassing more than 2.5 million views and 107,000 likes in a day.

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