Sonny Oram

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    Sonny Oram
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    Photo by Sam Murray
    Date of birth 8/27/88
    Place of birth Boston
    Nationality American
    Pronouns He and they
    Gender identity nonbinary[1]
    Occupation web designer
    Known for Qwear

    Sonny Oram is a web designer and queer fashion activist. They are best known as the founder of Qwear, a news and community website focused on LGBTQ+ fashion. In 2015, the fashion website DapperQ named them "dapperQ of the Year".[2]

    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.[3] Sonny came out again as trans and nonbinary around 2013 and had top surgery in 2015[4].

    Sonny met their partner Rupi in 2014, who later became Qwear's Fashion Director and eventually co-owner.[5]

    In 2019, Sonny founded Qwear Media, an LGBTQ+ media talent database and agency with the goal of raising LGBTQ+ representation in advertising.

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    References

    1. Kadlec, Jeanna (2015). "Life + Business: Sonny Oram of Qwear". Design*Sponge. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
    2. Vita, Anita Dolce (5 January 2015). "Announcing dapperQ of the Year: Sonny Oram". dapperQ. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
    3. Oram, Sonny (26 November 2018). "Why I Founded Qwear: The clothes that made me". Qwear. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
    4. "I'm Getting Top Surgery Tomorrow — See You Soon!". Qwear | Queer Fashion Platform. Retrieved 2020-08-21.
    5. "Team". Qwear | Queer Fashion Platform. Retrieved 2020-08-21.