Timeline of media coverage
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Timeline of media coverage of furry fandom.
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[edit] 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
[edit] 1994
- March
- "Johnny Manhattan Meets the Furry Muckers" in Wired magazine.
[edit] 1995
-
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
- 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
- October
- 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
- 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".
- 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
- 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.
[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. [[2]]
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
[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.
- June
- Let's Pretend We're Bunny Rabbits and March of the Furries in the Denver Westword.
- 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
- August
- Furries!! Or ‘What I Did Over Summer Vacation’ at PopCultureShock.com [5]
- September
- KU alumnus to hold art show in Kansas City, in the University Daily Kansan [6]
- 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)
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- October
- November
- 1: Hell Hath No Furries in the Hartford Advocate
- 11: Furry Fanatics on CNN copy of video
- December
[edit] 2008
- Undated
- Valerio Duikt Onder episode 24 on TMF Nederland
- January
- Day of the Animals in Good Times (Santa Cruz)
- 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 [11]
- March
- Furry in subcultural "tribes" article in Time Out Sydney
- April
- Savage Love column "Back in the Saddle"
- May
- Furry like me in the Sacramento News & Review [14]
- 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)
- July
- Autistic like a fox in Asperger United
-
Peluches en la playa [24] (translation)
- August
- October
- November
- December
- Welcome to Camp Feral! in Maisonneuve (magazine) (Winter 2008 issue)
[edit] 2009
- January
- 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).
- July
- 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.
- August
- Get Your Animal On! [36] 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 [37] 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."
- 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
- November
- Who are the furries? on the BBC News online magazine
- December
- Время такое: звереют люди... in Russian F5 magazine #39 (12/7/09) p.20
[edit] 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] [38]
- Fine furry friends meet at the Fairmont in the San Jose Mercury News. Dated January 25, 2010.[39]
- Furry characters come to life in Payson, Arizona's Payson Roundup [40]
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[edit] References
- ↑ "First post!... FC Coverage" - posting by Eagle Beagle on furrymedia. Dated January 23, 2010. Retrieved January 24, 2010