Timeline of media coverage

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Timeline of media coverage of furry fandom.

[edit] 1994

• Sci-Fi Channel covers ConFurence 4.

March

• "Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers" in Wired magazine.

[edit] 1995

• Sci Fi Channel covers ConFurence East.
• Married… with Children 'the two that got away'. In the end Kelly performs a commercial in a fursuit

[edit] 1996

March

• Furry-Muckity Muck in The Netly News.

[edit] 1997

August

• "Internet-Fans begegnen sich in Bodstedt" about Eurofurence 3.

October

• Animal Instincts news segment from WSVN-TV News.
• Creature Comforts in Marie Claire magazine.

[edit] 1998

March

• The Truth About Furries is ... Well, WE Don't Know appeared in the New Haven Advocate.
• Heavy Petting appeared in Loaded magazine.

August

• Animal Magnetism in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

[edit] 1999

Summer

• Stay Free! published the interview "Furry Friends".

September

• The Daily Show interviewed Rapid T. Rabbit.

October

• Eurotrash segment on ConFurence 10.

November

• The Skeptic's Guide to Science Fiction in The Ottawa Citizen.

December

• Furries of the Valley in the Silicon Valley's Metro.

[edit] 2000

April

• Venus in Furs in the New Times Los Angeles Online.

June

• Cuddle time at Salon.com

August

• Ladder Trick in the Greenwich Village Gazette.

September

• Chik'ki talks about his furriness on the Channel 4 show Frontal.

October

• Human Furry Animals documentary on Channel 4.

[edit] 2001

Undated

• Go Big magazine includes a photograph of "renowned plushophile Scott Anderson" in a fursuit.
• My first touch of fur by Rick Castro in Glue magazine.

March

• Vanity Fair article "Pleasures of the Fur".
• Nightlife segment The Furverts on LWT.

April

• The fursuit of happiness in the Montreal Mirror.
• Finding His Inner Tiger in the Omaha World-Herald.

May

• Fear of Commitment episode of ER.
• What's kinky now? in Flare.

July

• Critter Camp Out in PitchWeekly Online
• Invasion of the furries in the Wayne Suburban.

August

• Fur Out! appeared on Xtra.ca.
• "Talk to the Animals: A Foray into Furry Fun" in Clean Sheets

December

• The fursuit of happiness in the London Financial Times weekend magazine.

[edit] 2002

January

• Plushies and Furries aired as an episode of Sex2K on MTV.

February

• Are you fur real? in the Orlando Weekly.

April

• A 'furry' tale for a foxy college student in Olympian.

July

• Anna in Wonderland documentary about furries on BBC Choice.
• She Spies episode featuring furries.
• A wild hobby brings out the beast in them in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

August

• Savage Love columns "Furry Friends", "Furry Fury", and "Furry Fury II".

October

• Mama Told Me I Should Come episode of The Drew Carey Show.

November

• Why Mickey Mouse Wears Pants in The Varsity, the University of Toronto's student newspaper.

[edit] 2003

January (Further Confusion 2003)

• Animal Instincts in the Tri-Valley Herald.

April

• My Life As a Furry in the Los Angeles Alternative.

June

• Bowling for Porcupine: It's not easy being furry in the Riverfront Times.

August

• They've got a warm and fuzzy feeling in The Globe and Mail.
• Animal Imitators on TLC.
• 'Furry' weekend in Memphis published in The Commercial Appeal.

October

• "Fur and Loathing" episode of CSI.

November

• Beauty and the Beast, an episode of Culture Shock on CBC Newsworld.

December

• Wild Kingdom from Houston Press.

[edit] 2004

Undated

• "Furries" in YRB magazine.
• Fur Fetish on CBS2 News.
• Robert Goodwin interviewed on See Hear, a weekly magazine programme for Deaf and hard of hearing people in the UK.

March

• "Fur Factor" in The Tennessean.
• "Fur play" in The Vancouver Courier.

July (Anthrocon 2004)

• Animal Magnetism in the Philadelphia City Paper.

November

• Tokion photographs of unidentified furry fans.

September

• Conventional fur for all in The News Tribune of Tacoma, Washington, U.S.A.

December

• Control Tower column by Mistress Matisse in The Stranger.

[edit] 2005

January

• The Mercury News published an article about Further Confusion.
• British newspaper The Guardian publishes an online article about mascot sex. [[1]]

March

• Facing the inevitable in the Toronto Star.
• Get Furry in The Battalion, the student newspaper of Texas A&M University.

April

• Creature Feature in Successful Meetings.
• "Anime fans flock to Midstate convention" in The Tennessean.
• The Lillian Verner Game Show on Comedy Central's MADtv.

June

• Hvilket dyr er du? in the Norwegian Anno magazine.

July

• Fur Better or Worse [2] in the Philadelphia Weekly

August

• All The Rage in the US in the London Financial Times weekend magazine.

September (Mephit Furmeet 9)

• My Furry Weekend in The Memphis Flyer.

[edit] 2006

Undated

• Group Celebrates 'Furry' Lifestyle from WTAE-TV 4.
• So You Want to Dress Up Like a Furry Animal? within "How to Get Laid in Los Angeles: A Guide to Going to Town in Town" in Frontiers magazine.

February

• Fur Ball In the Works in the Pittsburgh City Paper.
• Warm and fuzzy in The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Post.

May (Rocket City Furmeet 2006)

• Get Furry in The Corner News from Auburn, Alabama.

June (Anthrocon 2006)

• Furries Descend On Pittsburgh broadcast and article from KDKA.
• 'Furries' Descend On Golden Triangle/The Furries Are Here from WTAE-TV 4.
• It's a furry weekend in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
• All about 'furry fandom' at confab in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
• Animal Passions in the Pittsburgh City Paper.

July

• Furries on Subcultures on CBC Radio One

August

• Walk With the Animals in Ann Arbor Paper.
• The furries are ready for some fun in The Lewiston Tribune.

September

• Fur fantasy fanatics only in the Waikato Times (New Zealand).

November

• Radio interview on Dublin 98 FM
• Eating Media Lunch segment about furries and mascots.
• Bringing Out the Animal In You on Network TV3's Nightline (New Zealand)

[edit] 2007

January

• The Naked Trucker and T-Bones Show feature "a bear" in their "Hitchhiker of the Week" segment.

February

• Furries! Furverts Yiffing in a Fur Pile! in f news by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

April

• We're at it like rabbits in the UK's tabloid newspaper The Sun.

May

• Utter Furversion! in Scarlet.
• Humans are Animals in the Daily Titan of California State University, Fullerton, U.S.A.
• Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My in the Denver Westword.

June

• Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits and March of the Furries in the Denver Westword.
• 'Furring' is new sex craze for perverts in the Metro.
• How furry is it? in The Register tabloid website.
• Fursuit photograph in the "Back Story" feature of Popular Photography & Imaging.
• RTL Shockdoc: Sex met een teddybeer show.

July

• Furries purr over Pittsburgh reception in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
• Anthrocons convention turns city into 'real zoo' in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• Furries Return To Pittsburgh from WTAE-TV 4
• Report from Pittsburgh in POV Online
• Finally comfortable in their own fur in the Montreal Gazette
• The Day Fuckers episode of Entourage.

August

• Furries!! Or ‘What I Did Over Summer Vacation’ at PopCultureShock.com [3]

September

• KU alumnus to hold art show in Kansas City, in the University Daily Kansan [4]
• Eurofurence 13 coverage:
  • Eine Welt für sich (A world of their own) in Freies Wort, Suhl edition, page 13, 2007-09-08 (scan - translation)
  • Rollenspiel abseits des wirklichen Lebens (Roleplaying away from real life) in Freies Wort, 2007-09-08 (text and photographs)
  • Mit 'nem Tiger im Fahrstuhl (A Tiger in the Elevator) Thüringer Allgemeine, Ilmenau edition, Südthüringen department, 2007-09-08 (text and photographs scan - translation - front page section scan)

October

• Klingons Vs. Furries: Requiem on Attack of the Show, G4 (article copy of video)
• Fluff Piece in the Santa Fe Reporter [5]
• Feeling furry? in the Mt. Hood Community College Advocate [6]

November

• 1 : Hell Hath No Furries in the Hartford Advocate
• 11 : Furry Fanatics on CNN copy of video
• 27 : Hidden tails in the Daily Bruin [7]

December

• I like dressing up as a bear during sex in the Times online edition
• Das Tier in Dir on Metro, Puls TV Wien (copy of video)
• These Magic Moments in the New Jersey Monthly mentions FA: United

[edit] 2008

January

• Seattle Furries: Must Love Bowling and Dressing Up Like Scruffy Animals in the Seattle Weekly [8]
• Day of the Animals in Good Times (Santa Cruz)
• Furry Fandom, plushophilia and sex in Student Life

February

• In Hot FURSUIT in Legacy (student magazine of Louisiana State University)
• It's all about the Fur in SLM (a German Second Life magazine)
• Da steckt man nicht drin! in blond [9]
• Business or Pleasure episode of Back to You, FOX

March

• Furry in subcultural "tribes" article in Time Out Sydney
• Rassemblement des Mondes hors-pistes / Die Welt außer Rand und Band, on Tracks, arte [10],[11]

April

• Savage Love column "Back in the Saddle".

May

• Furry like me in the Sacramento News & Review [12]
• Super Furry Animals in Bizarre magazine[13][14][15]

June

• Furrygate: The Furrying; An article regarding the 2008 United States presidential election and certain members of the Furry Fandom in Sadly, No!. (US Political blog)
• Unleash your inner sexual beast in the Metro [16]
• Anthrocon Is Back, And Pittsburgh's Feeling Furry Again by WTAE-TV [17]
• Furry Convention Creates Wild Scene In Pittsburgh by WPXI [18]
• Furry Enthusiasts Back In 'Burgh For Convention by KDKA [19]
• Furry convention a $3 million cash cow for city businesses in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review [20]
• What's Furry, Fun, and in Pittsburgh This Weekend? Anthrocon 2008 in the Santa Barbara Independent [21]

July

• Autistic like a fox in Asperger United
• Peluches en la playa [22] (translation)

August

• Fur Traders in Style Weekly [23]

October

• The Call of The Wild in The Cornell Daily Sun [24]
• The fur's on you in the Arizona Daily Wildcat [25]

November

• Fur lovers—kinky or not—gather in Wheeling in the Chicago Tribune [26]

December

• FUR-ther in the San Luis Obispo County New Times [27]
• Furries subsection in "20 ways to have sex in the city" in Time Out London [28]
• Welcome to Camp Feral! in Maisonneuve (magazine) (Winter 2008 issue)

[edit] 2009

January

• My life as a Husky in Chicago's SouthtownStar [29]
• Bizarre covers RBW 2008 [30]
• Furries in Swindle Magazine [31]

February

• Em-Bear-Assed on SpikeTV's 1000 Ways To Die. A report on a man's death, mentioning a furry orgy. [32][33] (vid at spike.com not playing on 2009Mar29)

March

• Super Furry Animals in UK teen girl magazine Sugar