Furries
The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.
The best part is you not only get to hang out with lots of fluffy animal people (who often share your variety of not quite cis and straight), you get to bring all your hobbies along. Lots of furry musicians, programmers, writers, etc.
The biggest thing that furries have in common is that they are fans of each other. There's no other central rallying point.
It's a culture that encourages niceness.
Could you please shed some more light on this community? Maybe a link that describes it properly - I can google but could stumble upon maybe an unfactual website without knowing it.
A community that encourages niceness is something I haven't really heard of before yet sounds super interesting - that's not to say that a community has to explicitly say they're nice to be nice. I know I've had my fair share of going out of my comfort zone meeting others and not knowing whether they are "that" person or not. Although maybe it's good for me to come to terms with knowing that not everyone is friendly and that that's okay.
One good place to start is with the main furry wiki's own definitions: http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry and http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Furry_fandom
I don't know what they use to keep cool.
Solutions range from wearing a cooling vest that contains gel packs (you freeze them before wearing them) to fursuits with integrated cooling fans. (Often they vent through the ears.)
You can just decide you're a furry and find an entry point into the community. There's even a furry making new ones with every match in the fighting game community.