The furry community is beautiful. UncleKage, chairman of Anthrocon, said it best in my opinion. And I quote:
"If you go to a furry convention, you'll see black people, you'll see white people, you'll see asian people. You'll see arabic people. You will see Muslims, Jews, Hindus, Christians, Atheists. You will see rich people, you'll see poor people, you'll see young, old, an amazing mixture of people. And when we are here, nobody sees any of those differences. We come here and all we see is another furry. In this little culture of ours, we have found the diversity that America has been after for so many years, which has eluded it's grasp. We found it, just by being us."