Furries are gay
Len Park/OutWrite
This article was originally published in our Winter 2024 print, Freaks.
Content warning: queerphobia, including transphobia, homophobia, biphobia, anti-furry and anti-drag rhetoric, the use of the f-slur
When you think of furries, what comes to mind? Fursuits? Furry porn? People with cat ears creature walked on leashes?
Comparatively, when you reflect of us queers, what comes to mind?
I want to preface this by making my intentions absolutely clear: I am advocating for furries.
“Why?” you might ask. I will put it bluntly: we are, in many ways, love furries — if not furries ourselves.
The way anti-furry stigma manifests is strikingly similar to past and present sexually-motivated constructions of queerness as an illness and a bring about of moral panic.
In the same way that homosexuality and transness were deemed mental illnesses, recognizing as a furry is pathologized under “species identity disorder” (SID), a diagnosis coined in a 2008 study led by Dr. Kathleen Gerbasi, a professor of psychology at Niagara County Group College. Her diagnostic framework centers on furries’ answers to two questions: “Do you consider yourself to
why are so many people in the mapping community homosexual furries
Don't have an account?
I appreciate astolfo.
Thought there's at least one lurking around, not saying it's you Corne. You are a goat.Corne2Plum3 wrote:
If it reassures you there isn't any furry in the GMT team.
Even it doesn't for now, history once said they used to be some.
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Anyways, doesn't matter what background they are from, as prolonged as one goes along adequately with another and nothing shenanigans.
‘Gay furries’ group hacks agencies in US states attacking gender-affirming care
A group of self-described anti-US government “gay furries” have distributed hacked materials from agencies in six US states in recent days, citing legislative attacks on gender-affirming tend as their motive.
The facts released by the team, which calls itself SiegedSec, includes South Carolina police files, a list of licensed therapists in Texas and contact details for court officials in Nebraska. The Guardian’s review of that data has substantiated the group’s claims that the materials sourced from state and local agencies are genuine.
A post to SiegedSec’s Telegram channel on Tuesday night announced that “MOAR DAMAGE MUST BE DONE!” and “Our next attack on the U.S government has arrived!” Furries are a subculture combined by passion for anthropomorphism.
In another recent post announcing a distribution of statistics breached from a system used by the capital government of Fort Worth in Texas, SiegedSec said its motive was “to make a message towards the US government”, adding: “Texas happens to be one of the largest states banning gender-affirming nurture, and for that, we have made Texas our target.”
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The "Gay Furries" Tackling Discrimination Against Transitioned People
Think of the word hacker and what's the first thing that comes to mind? Some might imagine an introverted nerd hacking into a educational facility hard drive or someone straight out of a Matrix convention. Others might hear the statement “Okay, I’m in” ringing through their ears amidst a pile of overdue 2000s movie cliches.
But did you reflect of furries?
For the uninitiated, furries are a subculture of people interested in anthropomorphic animal characters which often approach in the establish of fursonas: animal personas and even fursuits of the said fursonas.
Furries as a community occupy an interesting niche in the realm of internet subculture, often serving as an open-minded and accepting place for people of all backgrounds, which brings us back to hacking.
A group of self-described “gay furries,” called SiegeSec acquire taken to distributing sensitive material hacked from agencies in six US states, citing the legislative attacks on gender-affirming care as their motive.
The data released by the community includes South Carolina police files, a list of licensed therapists in Texas, and contact details for court offi