[citation needed] Furnish is a contributing editor for Tatler magazine and also is a regular columnist for Interview and GQ.

[5] In June 2019, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, Queerty named him, along with John, as one of the Pride50 "trailblazing individuals who actively ensure society remains moving towards equality, acceptance and dignity for all queer people".

[7] Their first child, son Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John, was born on 25 December 2010 in California via surrogacy.

[8] After same-sex marriage became legal in England and Wales in March 2014, Furnish and John retroactively converted their civil partnership into a marriage and marked the occasion with a ceremony in Windsor on 21 December 2014, the ninth anniversary of their civil partnership.

[9] In 2016, Furnish sought an anonymised privacy injunction in the case PJS v News Group Newspapers Ltd.[10]