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History of the Event​

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Geek Glams are a new name – as of 2025 – for a fun, creative event tradition that's gone on for over a decade, across ATX, NYC and beyond. 

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The events are effectively a DIY Met Gala for Nerds: almost always a pub crawl, we get together and pick a series of walkable locations and a costume theme, and everyone shows up as a different costume from that theme.

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During our first years in New York City, our friends staged an annual spring bar crawl where we visited several bars in one afternoon, all dressed as different characters from a movie or television show. Why? Just because. And as odd as it may sound, it's insanely fun. You can tell from the photos: What started as 10-20 people for 30 Rock and Parks and Rec-themed crawls gained steam by the time we did Wet Hot American Summer, Kill Bill, Always Sunny and Broad City. Our NYC finale was themed Marvel Cinematic Universe, and you can see we basically saved the world.

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In 2022, we made pocket monsters stylish/slutty/ameezing for Pokémon Ho.

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In 2023, 107 mutants hit the street for X-Men City Limits.

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In 2024, we made 120 Nintendo legends into a lewk as Super Smash Hoes.

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In 2025, 150 cartoon characters took over downtown for Cartoon Netwerk