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Geek Pride Day is an initiative to promote geek culture, celebrated annually on 25 May.〔(【引用サイトリンク】ABC News">title=The Conversation: Celebrating Your Inner Geek )〕 The date was chosen as to commemorate the 1977 release of ''Star Wars'',〔 but shares the same date as two other similar fan "holidays": Towel Day, for fans of ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy'' trilogy by Douglas Adams, and the Glorious 25th of May for fans of Terry Pratchett's ''Discworld''. The initiative originated in Spain in 2006 as ((スペイン語:Día del orgullo friki)) and spread around the world via the Internet. While other events with Pride in them refer to the GLBT commmunity and there geeks that identify as GLBT, Geek Pride Day caters to all people who are into geek culture regardless of orientation. ==Origins== Tim McEachern organized unconnected events called Geek Pride Festival and/or Geek Pride Day 1998 to 2000 at a bar in Albany, New York, which are sometimes seen as a prelude to Geek Pride Day. In 2006, the Spanish blogger Germán Martínez known online as ''señor Buebo'' organized the first celebration, the day was celebrated for the first time in Spain and on the Internet, drawing attention from mainstream media. The biggest concentration took place in Madrid, where 300 Geeks demonstrated their pride together with a human Pac-Man. A manifesto was created to celebrate the first Geek Pride Day, which included a list of the basic rights and responsibilities of geeks. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Geek Pride Day」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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