A group of Tennessee “furries” will have a float in Nashville’s 2024 gay pride parade.
“Wowie! We’re so proud to be doing this again! If you guys remember from last year, we made international news and were seen by Jill Biden, First Lady of the United States! Pretty dang cool, huh?” said a group called MurfreesFurs on its website. “Well, now EVERY FURRY GROUP IN TENNESSEE is joining us! We are sponsoring and paying for everyone to get involved with us in unity, and we can’t wait to see the fandom united under a beautiful cause! Each furry group is going to get together in decorating and building the float with their own designs, and then we march or ride in the parade!”
The parade is on June 22.
Furries are defined as “a diverse community of fans, artists, writers, gamers, and role players. Most furries create for themselves an anthropomorphized animal character (fursona) with whom they identify and can function as an avatar within the community,” according to FurScience.com.
That website notes that the large majority of furries are not heterosexual.
“Approximately one-third identify as exclusively heterosexual; furries are about five times more likely to identify as exclusively homosexual than the general population,” the site says.
According to MurfreesFurs, that is a high estimate. The group bragged that 90 percent of furries are not heterosexual.
“Happy Pride Month!” the group said on its X account on June 1. “We’re happy to be here for you all in one of the biggest times for the furry fandom – Pride Month! Furries and Pride have a long and deeply intertwined history, including a study estimating that only ~10% of furries are actually heterosexual!”
✨🏳️🌈 Happy Pride Month! 🏳️🌈✨
🌈 We’re happy to be here for you all in one of the biggest times for the furry fandom – Pride Month!
💕 Furries and Pride have a long and deeply intertwined history, including a study estimating that only ~10% of furries are actually heterosexual! pic.twitter.com/2QIihwEl1L
— MurfreesFurs — Tennessee Furry Fandom (@MurfreesFurs) June 1, 2024
Some conservative commentators have posited that soon, bestiality could normalized alongside the rest of the LGBT groups.
In Australia, outraged parents pulled their children out of school in April after bestiality was taught alongside LGBT curriculum.
According to a report from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation:
Students say they were then given an explanation of the initialism LGBTQIA+, with each word and its meaning displayed on the screen.
‘There was a slide for what the ‘plus’ means, and they just started randomly saying words that no-one knew, like bestiality,’ [a student] said.
The students said bestiality was then explained in detail and the presenter seemed to imply it was something practised by people who identified as LGBTQIA+.
‘They said [the queer community] just accepts all of it, even though … isn’t it illegal?’ [the student] said.
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Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Pete on Twitter/X.
Photos “MurfreesFurs” by MurfreesFurs — Tennessee Furry Fandom.
