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'''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/}}</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}}</ref> Sonny came out again as trans and nonbinary around 2013 and had top surgery in 2015<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 {{!}} Queer Fashion Platform|language=en-US|access-date=2020-08-21}}</ref>.