metalwolf
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It's Friday. I'm sitting in the lobby of a swank, North Shore Chicago hotel, typing away on a netbook. The chatter is lively and happy. People are hugging, laughing, trading stories from the past year. A man in a fox suit looks to me and waves, his frosty, tool-dip-and-foam-block nose looking almost wet in the light. When I wave back, he barks. The blue kangaroo passing by jumps a little, faking surprise; then, pulling out a little noisemaker, squeaks toward the fox.
It's hard to remember a time when I would have considered these events odd. It's been seven years since my first convention, and after a while one takes on the mentality of "seen it all before." The anatomy of a furry convention is quite simple, when you get down to brass tacks; it's a place where like-minded people of all creeds can get together and hang out for a weekend, free from any judgment. While I'm not exactly into furry anymore, the cons are still a lot of fun to attend on occasion. There is something about furry cons that brings open-minded people together and gives them a place to be themselves.
A few broad-stroke observations of furry conventions come after the jump:
bilerico.lgbtqnation.com
It's hard to remember a time when I would have considered these events odd. It's been seven years since my first convention, and after a while one takes on the mentality of "seen it all before." The anatomy of a furry convention is quite simple, when you get down to brass tacks; it's a place where like-minded people of all creeds can get together and hang out for a weekend, free from any judgment. While I'm not exactly into furry anymore, the cons are still a lot of fun to attend on occasion. There is something about furry cons that brings open-minded people together and gives them a place to be themselves.
A few broad-stroke observations of furry conventions come after the jump:
A world where LGBT is the majority
Gay men make up an overwhelming majority of the furry population. Trans people, according to surveys, make up about 1 of every 61 furries, and that's not counting other kinds of gender-variant folks. While there are a disproportionate number of cisgender women attending conventions, many identify as lesbian or bisexual. Straight men and women are a minority group within a furry convention.
Anatomy of a furry convention
It's Friday. I'm sitting in the lobby of a swank, North Shore Chicago hotel, typing away on a netbook. The chatter is lively and happy. People are hugging, laughing, trading stories from the past year. A man in a fox suit looks to me and waves, his frosty, tool-dip-and-foam-block nose looking...
bilerico.lgbtqnation.com
