World Goth Day 2018

At work I have an ongoing joke whereby I arrive in my black tie, black pants, black belt, and black shoes and tell everyone how "I'm goth". I am frequently confronted about my white dress shirt for which I simply clarify as "business goth".
 

So even though the rock music called 'goth' which arose from punk with those mystical and apocalyptic lyrics never crossed my lips nor my ears,

And even though I never embraced the subculture favoring all the black clothing with white and black and red makeup to go along with it all ...

I enjoy my brief fantasy into telling people that "I'm goth" regardless of their skepticism and suspicions of my motives right on down to that hilarity which sometimes ensues.

Today is World Goth Day — "a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world."

World Goth Day has British beginnings about 2009 as a BBC Radio 6 event by Goth DJs Cruel Britannia and martin oldgoth . Ultimately, May 22 became the date selected for recurrence of the day celebrating goth subculture. It has grown over the years to around 40 events internationally.