“They wear custom-made badges and fursuits that project a chosen animal identity: foxes and deers and every manner of mythical hybrid. It makes for a parade of colour that spills in all sorts of directions. There are panels to attend and workshops to take part in; some come for the art, others just want to party. To outsiders, this can all seem a bit sordid. Mainstream media has consistently portrayed the fur community as fetishistic – a weird, kinky world where people watch cartoon p-rn and have sex in large, elaborate animal costumes.” (OK, you got me. I’m intrigued.) Huck Magazine: Furry Nation: Inside America’s most misunderstood subculture.