Welcome, New hampshire Furries

"It’s a February afternoon in a ballroom at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge. Tables ring the room, covered in reams of hand-drawn artwork, rows of brightly colored fur tails and paws and stacks of graphic novels.

Attendees of this year’s Anthro New England convention peruse the merchandise, occasionally stopping to embrace one another. Most sport animal ears, onesies or bushy tails. A good number, though, are dressed up like stylized mascots in detailed, full-body suits complete with foam heads. The suits range from the conventional to the fantastical, representing animals both real and imaginary.

This is a convention for furries, members of a decades-old fandom that’s perhaps one of cosplay culture’s most misunderstood".

Read more at: http://tuftsdaily.com/features/2015/03/05/tufts-daily-goes-furry-convention/