Furry Weekend Atlanta offers community for over 7,000 attendees

"Furries" pose for a photo at Furry Weekend Atlanta. (Courtesy of Furry Weekend Atlanta Executive Board)

This weekend, several hotels in downtown Atlanta will house a convention expected to bring over 7,000 attendees from across the globe. In fact, both the event’s fanfare and its participants can best be described as “wild.”

For 19 years, Furry Weekend Atlanta has brought members of the furry community, individuals who dress in animal-themed costumes and attire, together for a weekend of cosplay, gaming and fun.

This year’s theme, “The Lost City,” promises hundreds of hours of programming, dances, enormous video game and board game rooms, an artist alley, a fur suit dance competition and special surprises for conventiongoers.