so much homosexuality

[Kaprika]

..in the furry fandom.

i went to my first Fur-meet..of the GROUP kind yesterday at arrundel mills mall. it was me, david and like 15 other people...ALL men to be exact..and to be even more precise id say about 12 of the 15 were gay and the others just wouldnt say what they were..(so im assuming gay but in the closet)
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im gonna go out there and say this now..ive NEVER seen so many gay people in once place at once in my LIFE. it was weird knowing that i was surrounded by 15 men and not ONE had the SLIGHTEST interest in me
usualy i walk in a room and i get them DROOLING faces and lingering stares...its so bizzare for me i ACTUALY felt insecure. (with how i grew up and the pressures i alwase got i alwase feel that i have to oversexualize myself to be liked. and that if im not sexualy appealing then nobody will like me) so here i am the only chick there...and wondering just WHAT percentage of furries are of what orientation (ive taken notice that all onine furry communities ive been to are predominantly gay also) it was kinda nice to see so many openly happy gay people..cause usualy they have to feel repressed and hidden and im glad there is a fandom and a community of people that they feel they can be open and themselves around. there was even a married gay couple and i thought that was so cool   GO THEM!!

but back to what i was asking/saying
am i correct in my assumption that most furries are gay?? is there something about our culture that just appeals to gay people??
i find this subject really curious as i am pansexual and i find that i dont see alot of straight furries now that i think about it. does our culture encourage sexual openess?? or is that just the kind of people we attract??

or do you think im tottaly off my rocker and that it has nothing to do with furry.
DISCUSS!
8D

[Ares the Ram]

Ive noticed this too. I think its how accepting the furry community is, it attracts them.

[Rhett (Twister)]

I agree with Macid, plus, maybe they were bisexual? Or were they certainly gay, because I know more people are bisexual than gay~
Plus, it's probably because furries and gays are both awesome

[Boone Zofox]

I've come to notice this as well, I actually had a short struggle in my sexuality (which I resolved to me being straight), but it does seem to be pretty common. That originally was one of the reasons I never told people I was a furry, because I thought most people would think I was gay, and I guess it makes sense. I've always wondered though why so many male furries were gay.  

[NemiShawn]

Hmm, I haven't had a lot of experience of the furry community, only just exploring talking to others, so I don't know. However, from what I've seen around the forums it seems like a lot of people are bisexual or gay. Personally, I see myself as pansexual like yourself
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[josh_down]

speaking as a great big gay myself, i joined the furry social scene because the gay social scene is just a wish-wash of pretty uninteresting people. the furry scene is a wish wash of usually interesting people of hugely varying sexualities. most of the fandom is actually bisexual from my experiences.

[✡]

I think it varies but the gay percentage IS generally higher because of lack of social constraints. Of course you also have people calling themselves bisexual just to look "edgy"

[icy wolf]

From what ive seen most of the furs i know in rl are bisexual men.... the female ones usealy tend to be heterosexual. furry fandom is male dominate. ive dont know why the furry fandom attracts so many people who are homosexual, but my best guess would be that it is because it is so accepting. I do remember when i accept that i wasn't heterosexual that i was pansexual and no one trolled me for it. From some online study's it dose show that our culture is about equal for heterosexual to non heterosexuals ( 51% hetro 49 % non) http://www.klisoura.com/ot_.      

[Vee Katame: His Wolfy]

Yeah, I've seen this topic come up here before. I believe it's just because the furry community is the very accepting so people don't think they need to hide their sexuality. I think there are actually a lot of straight furs but they probably just don't have any focus on them because everyone is so amazed by how many openly gay furs there are.

Also, this question is partly why the topic polling people about their sexuality was made here: http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=15426.0

[WingedZephyr]

Yeah, I've seen this topic come up here before. I believe it's just because the furry community is the very accepting so people don't think they need to hide their sexuality. I think there are actually a lot of straight furs but they probably just don't have any focus on them because everyone is so amazed by how many openly gay furs there are.

Also, this question is partly why the topic polling people about their sexuality was made here: http://www.thefurryforum.com/forums/index.php?topic=15426.0

^ This.

Straight furs exist, and not a small number of them either. There's just a larger percentage of noticeably bi/gay people in the furry fandom than people usually see in the general population. People find it odd because of that difference, so it draws more attention that the straight portion of the fandom.

[NJMike]

I thought I was the only one that noticed this; I hardly ever see straight furs.

[ArcticSkyWolf]

I've seen a lot of gay furs so far...

[Kaprika]

i dont wish to presume that all male furries are gay..but it seems that i dont know any male furries that are straight either (they are either gay or bi)

and yeah. ive noticed that females are predominantly straight in the furry fandom too..>>.....THIS NO MAKE SENSe!

[Boone Zofox]

*Raises hand* Uh . . . straight here. Maybe we could get to know eachother so you know at least one.

[WingedZephyr]

i dont wish to presume that all male furries are gay..but it seems that i dont know any male furries that are straight either (they are either gay or bi)

There's at least 44 of them on this forum according to the poll. So they're probably just not noticed as easily if you aren't seeing them.