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Celebrate your geek pride all year round!
Although there is an official Geek Pride Day, true lovers of science fiction, the fantasy genre, video games, movies, and comics or manga are so all year long.
Dates, planetary alignments, or different eras do not matter, because those who are geeks are always looking for a good plan to satisfy their curiosity and interests. That is why we suggest five timeless plans to celebrate Geek Pride Day with your friends, but which you can organize any day of the year and that need no excuse.
Comic covers, one of the most desired objects by geeks
Plans to celebrate your geek pride all year round
Go to your trusted geek shop
For May 25th, it will surely have scheduled activities or special discounts, but if not, you can simply go alone or with friends and indulge in a good dose of research among comics, mangas, figurines from your favorite series, and varied merchandise. There are some shops in Madrid, such as Comic Co, Elektra Comic, Atlántica Comics, Akira Comics, Metropolis, or Generation X where you can find everything. Barcelona also has its geeky corners, among which stand out Norma Comics, Gigamesh, or Freaks; in Bilbao you can go look for whatever you want at the Secret Warehouse or Friking Bilbao... the options are countless and the types of places very varied.
Lan Party
Wikipedia. Lan Party, a geek pride plan
Organize a get-together with all your friends so they bring their computers and play “locally” your favorite video games, like Counter Strike or LOL, while you eat, listen to music… You can also choose any old console game that reminds you of your childhood or the latest video game releases you want to try and discuss, like The Witcher, Far Cry, God of War, Uncharted, Metal Gear...
Marathon of your favorite saga
It can be Star Wars, Die Hard, The Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Marvel Universe sagas, DC Comic movies or Blade Runner (the old and the new)…. any option is good if it is about reviewing for the umpteenth time those movies we already know by heart. Clearly, there can also be a marathon of series, of the most curious, quirky, funny, or anecdotal YouTube challenges you find. In cinemas like Artistic Metropol in Madrid, B-movie screenings are organized, but lately the appointment to attend the Monstrua of Bad Cinema in Rivas Vaciamadrid or the sessions at The Warrior cinema in Barcelona never fail, where they organize from time to time, and in their own words, “free festivals of bad cinema, B-movies, Z-movies, homemade films, failed blockbusters, and lots of noise.”
Analog challenges
Because there is more than video games, you can also challenge and compete with your friends in some good board games. There are bars and places where you can choose the one you like best and spend as many hours as you want... or you can also meet at one of your homes around a good table and with good music.
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Costume party
Because one of the things geeks like most is to dress up and try to be one of our favorite superheroes for a day, the costume party is a classic among classics. Never waste the chance to dress up as Darth Vader.
Happy Geek Pride Day!
More than ten years ago, with the idea of organizing a day to celebrate the pride of being a geek and the goal that on Book Day discounts could be accessed in specialized shops, the blogger “Mr. Buebo” created an “official” website for Geek Pride Day.
He announced it on his blog The Dark Side in 2006 and from that moment, the website began to buzz with ideas and plans to celebrate and say together “Happy Geek Pride Day.”
The first gathering to celebrate Geek Pride Day was in Madrid’s Plaza de Callao and hundreds of people gathered there to claim the love they felt for plans, products, and, in general, everything geek in this world.
And although in that inaugural year of Geek Pride Day a human PacMan was planned, all kinds of beings from other galaxies, other worlds, and other dimensions arrived at the square ready to claim and enjoy their tastes.
Year after year the event has gathered hundreds of geeks who have met in different places in Spain and the world and, among the many things that are beginning to become geek tradition, are the t-shirts, which each year have a limited edition.
2006: GEEK PRIDE (We Will Rule the World)
2007: I Have a Dark Side (I’m Geek)
2008: Honor Your Heroes
2009: Being Geek Comes With Great Responsibility
2010: Lost Geeks
2011: May the Freak be With You
2012: Licence to Freak
2013: Where No Freak Has Gone Before
2014: Mua Ha Ha Ha!!!
2015: Episode Seven
2016: X-Anniversary
2017: I Have Seen Things You Would Not Believe…
2018: Neo-Tokyo Is About to Explode (“We Celebrate 30 Years of Akira,” explain the organizers)
Other editions have celebrated geek pride in the already traditional meeting at Ciutadella Park in Barcelona, the Geek Day of Cádiz - which is organized every year -, or the Frikoño, the Geek Festival of Logroño, among others.
Specialized geek shops have also joined in organizing forums, talks, and debates, and in Madrid, Fnac is a collaborator of the organization and during those days organizes several activities in its stores across the country.
