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Capital FurCon, an upcoming furry convention on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., moved its dates up a weekend due to coinciding with a conservative and Christian broadcaster conference at the same venue, the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Flayrah has learned.

Originally scheduled for February 25–28, 2027, the convention made an announcement earlier this month that it would be moved to February 18–21, one week earlier. The note, made on July 2nd, stated that it was “Due to an error made by our hotel partner”. “This change became necessary due to the Gaylord’s sales team inadvertently double-booking our event space,” it read.

The rooms that the furry convention had contracted were not rented out to another event at the same time in a booking mishap, but rather the Gaylord is to be the venue for the National Religious Broadcasters’ 2027 International Christian Media Convention. Though occupying a different area, it partially overlapped with Capital FurCon’s original dates. The ICMC is scheduled for the last Tuesday through Friday in February; Capital FurCon had the last Thursday through Sunday.

Last week, the convention made a blog post alluding to this. The “original dates overlapped with an event that was not ideal for both events and our event's attendees.” This was attributed to “a mistake on the Hotel's side.” The event? ICMC 2027, McChaffee, the convention chair, confirmed to Flayrah.

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Across the world, furries celebrated Pride Month by marching with their local furry communities in pride parades. From Portland, Maine, to Seattle, Washington, furries showed up, donning their fursuits in the summer heat. Some tempted heatstroke wearing their full fursuit. With a fandom that had an explosion of growth during the Covid pandemic, more furries are participating now in local groups than ever before.

Most furries openly identify themselves as LGBTQ+ to an overwhelming degree, according to data from Furscience, an organization that does research in and on the furry fandom, with surveys including questions on sex and gender self-identification. One survey from earlier this year asked 869 furries online and at three conventions a slew of questions, including the self-identifications.

The results—not yet published but shared with Flayrah—show that 86.3% of furries are, in some form or another, LGBTQ+. In the survey, a mere 14.9% of respondents identified their sexuality as heterosexual, making them a minority in the fandom. Additionally, 73.2% and 9.6% of respondents identified as cisgender men and women, respectively. (The survey allowed for respondents to select multiple options, and participants could have reported, for example, to be both a trans man and a cis man.)

At the pride parades this year, even those who are allies participated. This is a list of them in which a furry organization participated in for June 2026, listed alphabetically by city. Organizers were asked about being in the parade, and their responses are included if they responded. Some organizations marched in two parades, and both are listed. Let us know if we’ve missed anything, and we’ll update this article.

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Taking aim at nostalgia of an era of cartoons sitcoms long past, Dynamite Publishing is releasing a new comic series based on the 1990s Disney Franchise of Tail Spin. The story of this series starts as Baloo's services are called to help a new citizen get to the home town of Cape Suzette, but face opposition along the way headed by Don Karnage's band of pirates.

They are adding this to a catalog of other such comics that are also based on sitcom cartoons from the era such as Darkwing Duck, Duck Tales, and The Lion King.

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Inside of Bunker Projects I Love Furry art exhibit -Photo by Kamen

As the city of Pittsburgh readied itself to welcome back Anthrocon, a small art gallery on Penn Avenue had viewers asking, “Why do they love furry?”

From June 5th to July 19th, nonprofit artist residency and gallery Bunker Projects hosted their second monumental furry art exhibition I LOVE FURRY. The gallery was created by Portland-based artist Tommy Bruce and involved asking furries in the fandom to submit photos, artwork, and stories about what they love about the community.

Bruce has been making art about the furry community and furry identity since 2010, and this is the second time his furry artwork has been featured in Bunker projects. Last year, he was featured among 60 other furry artists in an exhibit called “Room Party,” the first ever large-scale group exhibit of contemporary furry art. “Room Party” was featured at Bunker Projects last year from June 6th to July 20th, 2025, also meant to coincide with Anthrocon.

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Exterior of the David Lawrence Convention Center displaying the Anthrocon flag -Photo by Kamen

In 2006, the Anthrocon Board of Directors voted to move the convention from Philadelphia to the David Lawrence convention center and Westin in Pittsburgh. This was the start of a relationship that culminated in twenty thousand attendees celebrating 20 years of Anthrocon.

Anthrocon took place in Pittsburgh from July 2nd to July 5th with the theme of “Critters, Cryptids, and Curses,” while also celebrating the 20th anniversary of the convention taking place in the steel city. To honor this occasion, Pittsburgh mayor Corey O’Conner came to the organizers of the convention to declare the day “Anthrocon Day.” This was an unexpected gift to the convention, which involved visiting the organizers on July 1st, and the county executive Sara Innamorato congratulating the convention for contributing 169 million dollars into the Pittsburgh economy for the past 20 years.

For 20 years Anthrocon has had a special relation with its host city as it is symbiotic: Anthrocon gets to call the city its host while the city of Pittsburgh generates revenue from attendees.

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Following the unfortunate passing of Tori "Tugrik" Amundson, the server FurryMUCK was running upon needed to be retired. I am very appreciative and grateful that Tugrik's friends and next-of-kin have been keeping the server up and available to this point.

Finally, we've migrated FurryMUCK to a new server. In doing so, we've made several key improvements, including using the most recent copy of the underlying server code (Fuzzball v7.2) as well as updated SSL libraries. DNS has been updated so people can still use the known hostname to connect:
muck.furrymuck.com, port 8888 for basic access
muck.furrymuck.com, port 8899 for secure access

This has also meant moving the webserver FurryMUCK maintains to have online information. That is also at https://muck.furrymuck.com.
Going forward, status updates about the MUCK will be posted on the new FM-status account.

Thank you, for thirty-five years of furry fandom. I hope to keep it going for more.

Clutch the Bald Eagle (USA)

Maple the Moose (Canada)

Zayu the Jaguar (Mexico)

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Temperatures are rising, but so do the charity numbers. We also spotted the first ninja giraffe in the world, and our special guest is a long standing member of the furry community, an adorable plush fox that is mostly active behind the curtains! Aurapuffs!

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The intense heat forecast for this fourth of July throughout this weekend has caused Anthrocon to announce that the block party and parade in the city on Saturday will be cancelled.

Anthrocon has been closely monitoring the extreme heat and severe weather situation in Pittsburgh forecast for this weekend. Convention leadership has been in contact with emergency services personnel and other entities regarding this situations.

After careful consideration for the health, safety, and wellbeing of our fursuiters, attendees, and residents of Pittsburgh, Anthrocon has decided to cancel the 2026 Fursuit Parade and Block Party scheduled for 2pm, July 4th.

We know both Anthrocon attendees and our friends in Pittsburgh look forward to this even every year; but the health and safety of all concerned is our paramount priority.

Anthrocon attendees should look for announcements of alternative indoor activities in place of the parade this year. We apologize for the necessity of this decision and hope you'll continue to enjoy the events throughout the holiday weekend.

Weather Underground reports that for Pittsburgh, Saturday afternoon is expecting to have a temperature of 91F / 32.77C but it will feel like 100F / 37.78C.

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Anthrocon’s 18th year being held in Pittsburgh is in full swing, and on Wednesday the Mayor of Pittsburgh commemorated the occasion by proclaiming that day as “Anthrocon Day”. The convention started to be held in the city 20 years ago, in 2006, which was the catalyst for the celebration. Since then, Anthrocon has held its annual furry convention around June and July in the city, with the exception of 2020 and 2021 having been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Contributors this month include 2cross2affliction, dronon, earthfurst, EberraWolf, and Sonious. Also, Happy Canada Day!

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Dazai Hyena dances with a woman at Live-K in National Harbor, Maryland, during the first event hosted by the upcoming furry convention Capital FurCon. (Flayrah/Eberra Wolf)

Late Friday afternoon, a few dozen furries came down to National Harbor, Maryland, for the first in-person event hosted by Capital FurCon, an upcoming 21+ furry convention set to have its inaugural weekend in February. At a karaoke and bar called Live-K, the free, four-hour event was hosted in conjunction with DC Fur Meet, which hosts monthly bar nights in Washington, D.C.

The plaza outside Live-K was awash in Juneteenth celebration. Inside, outnumbering casual patrons enjoying a birthday or coming in from the heat, local furries in and out of fursuit drank and danced. Being a karaoke establishment, people could queue songs to sing on the main stage, before the lineup of DJs performed. There were also small side rooms, where people could either stash their bags or sing karaoke in a more secluded space for the whole event. DJs HanIsAlive, Novocanine, and KaiTo performed sets on the main stage through the latter half of the event.

The bar apparently gave happy hour pricing, though this reporter found himself being charged almost $17 for an alcoholic slushie. This paled in comparison to the $50 parking fee he found himself having to pay. (He should have parked in a different garage, and should have asked for budget drinks.)

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This is an incomplete list of titles that will be removed from Netflix during late-June 2026 (plus one in early July), mostly in Canada and/or in the United States. Unless otherwise noted, end dates are based on the Netflix Canada service.
The most notable losses (in my opinion) are:

1. Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts: with 30 episodes to watch in only five days (June 25 is last day to watch):, you still can do it if you average ten episodes a day. I BELIEVE IN YOU!!
2. The Wrath of Becky (details below, since I would prefer you watch Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts first, and The Wrath of Becky is leaving Netflix three days AFTER Kipo series leaves.)

Personally upset at Kipo series leaving Netflix, in part because the opening credits of each episode start with "A Netflix Original Series" screen, so removing a Netflix series FROM Netflix feels like a slap in the face.

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Furality for 2026 has completed its strongest year yet. Their attendance continued to grow by gaining 1,000 more attendees at 27,943. This growth has tempered, likely due to headwinds primarily caused by a new requirement of verifying age through electronic tools required to attend starting this year. They raised $116,121 according to the latest announcement for Resilient Hearts animal sanctuary, a LGBTQ+ run animal rescue.

The theme for this year was “Ultra”, a gaming theme where you visit the virtual world of the fictional console of the Ultravox Prism that is set to shut down at the end of the weekend. Many of the references were to the consoles of the mid-2000s that included loading intros and health warnings of overplaying that preceded many games of the era to invoke nostalgia toward that era of gaming long past.

The format of this gathering is seeming to become established and with that being the polish of the worlds is better than they ever have been. This article will go over the improvements found, but this year will primarily focus on the Dealer’s Mall in later sections. For a more larger view of Furality it is recommended reading our premiere article covering Furality Umbra from 2024. [2025 Furality Somna also available]

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Welcome to the tri-annual Steam Next Fest list of ALL furry & animal games we could find this time around! Play as a sheep hunting, or hunt sheep! Fish to your heart's content! Run bars, be jumpscared, or try every conceivable way to jump as a frog (again!) Our staff goes through the entire list of games published in the Fest to find and list each and every one that features anthropomorphic character(s), or features animals as a focus. This time, we scoured through all 4350+ games to get to this list of 370+ games. We could've missed a couple, but we hope this is an all-encompasing list for this season's available games! Almost every one has a demo, so go have fun and wishlist the ones that pique your interest!

We have an actively updated Furry & Animal Games & Developers List over at @GamingFurever on Twitter and another List over @GamingFurever on Bluesky that you can follow and get constant updates for lots of indie titles with TONS of lovely furry characters!

If you're a developer of any of these games, feel free to hit us up on email over on our Contact Us page!