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Timeline of media coverage of furry fandom.

1990s

See also: 1990s

1991

• Universe of the mind (Sci-fi convention a party for the misfits who run the world) [1] (Barbara Brotman, Sep 2, 1991) in the Chicago Tribune, covering Chicon V

1994

• Sci-Fi Channel covers ConFurence 4.

March

• "Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers" in Wired magazine. [2]

1995

• Sci Fi Channel covers ConFurence East.

1996

March

• Furry-Muckity Muck in The Netly News.

1997

February

• A "Tail" You Won't "Fur"get, a news segment about Minnesota furs attending ConFurence 8 by KARE. [3]

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.

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.

1999

January (FC 1999)

• Beyond Computers [4] on NPR

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.

2000s

See also: 2000s

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

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

October

• Human Furry Animals documentary on Channel 4.
• The Daily Show covers Gaylaxicon 2000, including a few mentions of "anthropomorphic erotica".

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.

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.

December

• Misprint in Educational Magazine Leads Fourth-Graders to Adult Web Site distributed by Associated Press.

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.

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.

2005

January

• The Mercury News published an article about Further Confusion.
• British newspaper The Guardian publishes an online article about mascot sex. [[5]]
• In San Jose, the 'furries' will congregate in USA Today [6], January 17, 2005.

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.
• Furry Fandom [7] in the Gay and Lesbian Times (issue 904)

June

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

July

• Fur Better or Worse [8] in the Philadelphia Weekly

August

• All The Rage in the US in the London Financial Times weekend magazine.
• Je t'aime, moi non peluche in Libération été. [9], [10]

September (Mephit Furmeet 9)

• My Furry Weekend in The Memphis Flyer.

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
• Meningen med allt on Sveriges Radio P3

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)

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 [11]

September

• KU alumnus to hold art show in Kansas City, in the University Daily Kansan [12]
• 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 [13]
• Feeling furry? in the Mt. Hood Community College Advocate [14]

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 [15]

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

2008

Undated

• Valerio Duikt Onder episode 24 on TMF Nederland

January

• Seattle Furries: Must Love Bowling and Dressing Up Like Scruffy Animals in the Seattle Weekly [16]
• Day of the Animals in Good Times (Santa Cruz)
• Furry Fandom, plushophilia and sex in Student Life
• Você conheçe um Furry? in NeoTokyo Magazine #24 [17] (scan by Anubis Kruger [18])

February

• In Hot FURSUIT in the 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 [19]
• Business or Pleasure episode of Back to You, FOX

March

• Furry in subcultural "tribes" article in Time Out Sydney
• GER Rassemblement des Mondes hors-pistes / Die Welt außer Rand und Band, on Tracks, arte [20], [21]

April

• Savage Love column "Back in the Saddle"

May

• Furry like me in the Sacramento News & Review [22]
• Super Furry Animals in Bizarre magazine [23][24][25]

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 [26]
• Anthrocon Is Back, And Pittsburgh's Feeling Furry Again by WTAE-TV [27]
• Furry Convention Creates Wild Scene In Pittsburgh by WPXI [28]
• Furry Enthusiasts Back In 'Burgh For Convention by KDKA [29]
• Furry convention a $3 million cash cow for city businesses in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review [30]
• What's Furry, Fun, and in Pittsburgh This Weekend? Anthrocon 2008 in the Santa Barbara Independent [31]

July

• Autistic like a fox in Asperger United
• Peluches en la playa [32] (translation)

August

• Fur Traders in Style Weekly [33]
• Och, sind die süüüß! in Die ZEIT (Zuender) [34]

October

• The Call of The Wild in The Cornell Daily Sun [35]
• The fur's on you in the Arizona Daily Wildcat [36]

November

• Fur lovers—kinky or not—gather in Wheeling in the Chicago Tribune [37]

December

• FUR-ther in the San Luis Obispo County New Times [38]
• Furries subsection in "20 ways to have sex in the city" in Time Out London [39]
• Welcome to Camp Feral! in Maisonneuve (magazine) (Winter 2008 issue)
• To fur is human? in the Santa Maria Sun [40]

2009

January

• My life as a Husky in Chicago's SouthtownStar [41]
• Bizarre covers RBW 2008 [42]
• Furries in Swindle Magazine [43]
• Grupos "furry", la nueva subcultura que irrumpe en Chile [44], translation

February

• Em-Bear-Assed on SpikeTV's 1000 Ways To Die. A report on a man's death, mentioning a furry orgy.

March

• Super Furry Animals in UK teen girl magazine Sugar

April

• Bringing Out the Animal in You in the Waikato Times (New Zealand).

May

• Michael Cogliantry (article) - "Michael Cogliantry" - Willamette Week - May 20th, 2009

July

• Thousands Of 'Furries' Flock To Pittsburgh For Anthrocon Convention — WPXI
• Video from the WPXI report
• Walk On The Wild Side: Furries Return To Pittsburgh, Freak Mets Out — WTAE-TV Channel 4.
• Furries Return To Pittsburgh — WTAE's news report on the pre-convention charity event
• Walk On The Wild Side: Furries Return To Pittsburgh — Another report from WTAE
• Walk On The Wild Side: Furries Return To Pittsburgh — Yet another report from WTAE
• Furries stress friendliness at Downtown convention, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, July 3, 2009.
• City gives Furries the warm fuzzies — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, July 3, 2009.
• Feeling So Funny all Over, Richael Michels sex scandal in Colorado that poorly represented the fandom.

August

• Get Your Animal On! [45] An editorial piece by the Fox News Channel's Fox & Friends, August 8, 2009.
• Furry Fandom: Art, community and a second skin to feel comfortable in [46] in the Ventura County Reporter (reprinted September 2009 in the Pasadena Weekly)
• Sexo felpudo in La Nación Domingo. A hit piece concentrating on "sex with stuffed animals."
• "Furries" Agog About Animal Togs A piece about RMFC by the Denver Post, August 9, 2009.
• Colors Magazine number #55: Brazilian Diversity [47], August 28, 2009

September

• Is Your Sex Life Normal? on The Tyra Banks Show

October

• Super Furry Animals in teen girl magazine Dolly (a reprint of Sugar)
• Owl Meat's Tipsy Tuesdays: A hairy situation — in the Baltimore Sun
• The Fursuit of Happiness in Penthouse

November

• Who are the furries? on the BBC News online magazine
• Hors-Série - Fandoms on TV5 Québec Canada

December

• Affur of the heart unleashes animal instincts in The Age
• Время такое: звереют люди... in Russian F5 magazine #39 (12/7/09) p.20
• Invasion der Kuscheltiere in Der Express

2010s

2010

January

• Furry: Gente de Pelúcia on the weekly television program Fantástico article (translation), video (captioned), discussion (translation)
• 'Furries' Gather For Convention In San Jose: article about Further Confusion 2010 on the CBS website. (Story did not make actual broadcast.)^[1] [48]
• FurCon 'furries' go mainstream in the San Antonio News. Dated January 23, 2010.[49]
• Fine furry friends meet at the Fairmont in the San Jose Mercury News. Dated January 25, 2010.[50]
• Furry characters come to life in Payson, Arizona's Payson Roundup [51]
• An unconventional convention in Watsonville, California's Register Pajaronian [52]
• Au pays des peluches in the Wikipedia:Université du Québec à Montréal's Montreal Campus

February

• Costumed critters show their wild side at Addison's Furry Fiesta convention in The Dallas Morning News [53]
• Addison Hosting Convention Of A Different Beast on CBS 11 [54]
• Professor pioneers research into furries in The Buffalo News [55]
• Christiane Charette interviews furs for CBC's French-language radio network Première Chaîne
• The Man With a Tail in the Vanguard [56], February 8, 2010.

March

• Fur Fun in BoingBoing, [57]
• Kal (25) lever som en grevling: article in Norway's Dagbladet newspaper [58]

May

• Furries invadem as ruas e o imaginário das pessoas [59], Diário de Guarulhos, (printed version [60]), May 9, 2010
• Furries Explain Animal Attraction: KETV 7 Omaha ABC news-story with video [61]

June

• Oh So Furry: The Rumpus Interview with Kilcodo and accompanying sidebar, "The Story Behind the Furry", both by Amy Letter, The Rumpus, June 16, 2010. [62] and [63]
• Anthrocon 2010 opens in Downtown Pittsburgh in the Pittsburgh Business Times [64], June 24, 2010.
• 'Furries' In Pittsburgh For Anthrocon Convention in a WPXI report [65], June 24, 2010.
• What Are Furries?, from the weblog of James Gurney, creator of Dinotopia ([66]), June 26, 2010.
• Anthrocon event brings out the animal in enthusiasts in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [67], June 26, 2010.

July

• 'It's Fun to Growl in Bed' -- A Female 'Furry' Lets Us Into Her World by Carrie Sloan, on lemondrop.com [68]. An excerpt from this was also published on Your Tango ([69]), July 1 , 2010.
• A segment on furries appeared on the syndicated talk radio show Your Time with Kim Iverson. [70], July 27, 2010. Flayrah covered the show ([71]), and it's also available for download ([72]). The furry segment starts at 26:14.

August

• Man tries to get his name legally changed to Boomer the Dog in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette [73], August 11, 2010.
• 'Furry' man denied bid to legally change name to Boomer the Dog in The Daily Telegraph [74], August 12, 2010.
  • Related:
    Court denies 'furry' man's request to change name in the New York Post [75], August 12, 2010.
• Anthropaws brings 'furry' characters to life in the Redmond Reporter [76], August 13, 2010. More photos are available ([77]), as are scans of the printed article and the paper's frontpage ([78], [79])

October

• In the episode of the Disney Channel series Sonny with A Chance aired October 21, entitled "The Problem With Pauly", Sonny dons Pauly's polar bear fursuit to fill in for him, and various references to the Furry Fandom are made.

November

• Oddisee Episode 02: A Furrytale, a short (8:25) independent documentary about Fjordwolf (on Youtube: [80])
• Unleashing the inner beast in The Age newspaper [81], November 29, 2010

December

• Have a very furry christmas, a seasonal picture of the Wildrose Critters in the Edmonton Journal [82]

2011

January

• Fur the fun of it [83], covering Halifax and Nova Scotia furs, on the Halifax News Net
• In an episode of The Simpsons entitled "Flaming Moe" (run on Fox on Sunday, January 16 at 8:30PM), Smithers convinces Moe to make his tavern a gay bar to improve business. When Moe later runs for council, fursuiters are seen with Bumble Bee Man, who is holding up a sign that reads "Furries Fur Moe".
• My Strange Addiction (scheduled January 19)
• Are they fur real? in the London Evening Standard [84], January 24, 2011

February

• School artist? Sometimes that's hard in the Orange County Register, an interview of Ludicrousy [85]
• From cat lovers to salad toppings: 17 weirdly niche dating sites at the MSNBC website. Dating sites Gallery includes Pounced.org. [86]
• Furries: an anthropomorphic culture thrives in Knoxville in the Arts and Culture section of the Tennessee Journalist (the news website of the School of Journalism and Electronic Media at the University of Tennessee)[87]

March

• Nightwind, Xywolf, Chonkster, Aigus, Aetherfax (a.k.a. Jute) and Meeple made an appearance in a segment on furries in OMG! with Peaches Geldof on ITV2 on March 09 2011.
  (Video: Part 1, Part 2)
• A local Atlanta radio station invades several private room parties at Furry Weekend Atlanta. [88]
• G4's Attack of the Show highlights some events at Furry Weekend Atlanta. [89]
• G4's Attack of the Show briefly refers to furry as a fetish in juxtaposition of BDSM animal roleplay [90]
• Kotaku reports on WolfPupTK's mission to raise awareness of the Red Cross. [91]

April

• The Erotic Awakening podcast #110 briefly talks about Furoticon (Triskelion). [92]
• Furries & Dyresex in Norway's Nat & Dag

June

• Furries Are Back In Pittsburgh on WTAE-TV. [93]
• Pittsburgh inundated by furries -- fans of animated animals on Reuters. [94]
• Furries Descend on Pittsburgh for Fur Suit Festival on Gawker. [95]
• "I blame the furries" on The Daily Gazette. [96]
• Obama's furry new plan unveiled in Pittsburgh on The American Thinker. [97]
• Pittsburgh's Anthrocon draws in animal-costume enthusiasts, revenue on The Detroit News. [98]
• Greetings from Gate B-33 on The Boston Globe. [99]

References

1. ↑ "First post!... FC Coverage" - posting by Eagle Beagle on   furrymedia. Dated January 23, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010