Sonny Oram

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| date_birth= August 27, 1988
| place_birth= Boston
| nationality= American
| pronouns= He and they
| gender=[[nonbinary]]<ref name="Kadlec">{{Cite web |title=Life + Business: Sonny Oram of Qwear |last=Kadlec |first=Jeanna |work=Design*Sponge |date=2015 |access-date=29 July 2020 |url= https://www.designsponge.com/2015/11/life-business-sonny-oram-of-qwear.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200622203919/http://www.designsponge.com/2015/11/life-business-sonny-oram-of-qwear.html |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>
| occupation=web designer
| known_for=Qwear
}}
'''Sonny Oram''' is a web designer and queer fashion activist. They are best known as the founder of [https://qwearfashion.com Qwear], a news and community website focused on [[LGBTQ]]+ fashion. In 2015, the fashion website DapperQ named them "dapperQ of the Year".<ref name="Vita">{{Cite web |title=Announcing dapperQ of the Year: Sonny Oram |last=Vita |first=Anita Dolce |work=dapperQ |date=5 January 2015 |access-date=29 July 2020 |url= https://www.dapperq.com/2015/01/announcing-dapperq-year-sonny-oram/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327000445/http://www.dapperq.com/2015/01/announcing-dapperq-year-sonny-oram/ |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref>

Sonny came out as gay at 16, and came out as [[genderfluid]] a bit later. They were bullied harshly for their gender, and recloseted themself as only gay once in college. After graduating college, Sonny started a tumblr blog titled "[[Dyke]] Duds", which would eventually become Qwear.<ref name="Oram-Why">{{Cite web |title=Why I Founded Qwear: The clothes that made me |last=Oram |first=Sonny |work=Qwear |date=26 November 2018 |access-date=29 July 2020 |url= https://www.qwearfashion.com/home/why-i-founded-qwear-the-clothes-that-made-me|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200619111359/https://www.qwearfashion.com/home/why-i-founded-qwear-the-clothes-that-made-me |archive-date=17 July 2023 }}</ref> Sonny came out again as trans and nonbinary around 2013 and had top surgery in 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.qwearfashion.com/home/im-getting-top-surgery-tomorrow-see-you-soon|title=I'm Getting Top Surgery Tomorrow — See You Soon!|website=Qwear|language=en-US|access-date=August 21, 2020|date=December 2, 2014|author=Oram, Sonny|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620030931/http://www.qwearfashion.com:80/home/im-getting-top-surgery-tomorrow-see-you-soon|archive-date=17 July 2023}}</ref>

==Links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20200514030225/https://www.sonnyoram.com/ Website]
*[https://twitter.com/sonnyoram Twitter]
*[https://www.instagram.com/sonnyoram/ Instagram]

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