Now she lives in Southern California and is part of The Dreamgirls Revue, featuring Southern California's finest in female impersonation (Chad Michaels, Delta Work, Shannel, Venus D-Lite, Morgan Mc Michaels, Raja, and Detox). She likes the name because it sounds very powerful like sonic powers. The main challenge was "Snatch Game" (a parody of the "Match Game") where the contestants have to impersonate a female celebrity on a game show to make Ru Paul and the world laugh.

Sonique is pursuing an acting career in Hollywood and has done quite a few appearances on other TV shows, including Jay Leno's Tonight Show, Gene Simmons Family Jewels, The Mentalist, LA Hair, Joan and Melissa, and Joan Knows Best. Sonique chose to do Lady Gaga, but gave a very little life to Lady Gaga which landed her in the bottom 2.

Sonique was known on the show for her beauty, her southern charm, her killer body, her gymnastics, and being the first to announce that she is transgender. The guest star Alac Mapa said "I didn't find any characteristic, Gaga-ishness." So Sonique ended up in the bottom two alongside Morgan Mc Michaels.

Sonique was eliminated during the 4th episode on Season 2 of Drag Race.

She joined the ranks of people who took to the Internet and publicly declared their sexuality, aiming to affirm the unity and resilience of the LGBTQ community. Many found it difficult to understand how a woman married to a man with whom she’s had a daughter could veer off the comfortable, heterosexual path. What was the most surprising aspect of the negative feedback?

Others, of course, congratulated Martin and commended her boldness. The most hate that I’ve received is for being with someone who is trans. It’s just a general hatred and I don’t know where it comes from.

It began at age 5 with a Barbie doll, a secret gift from a beloved grandfather.

We are a diverse community, representing all racial and ethnic backgrounds, as well as faith backgrounds.

Where and when did you find out about the shooting in Orlando? As I was waking up, it was live on my Twitter feed. As soon as I found out what it was, it didn’t sink in completely at first. I thought it would never be a problem here in Canada. It’s not a big deal to be trans in 2016, but lots of people still don’t understand.

I’m sure people felt the same way when the attacks in Paris happened, because of the change in time and everything. I was shocked and then I was just really, really, really sad. I guess a lot of people found out when they woke up and everything, but for me, it was direct. Once I had [my daughter] Romy, all these feelings started really coming back and I started shutting down again and not knowing what to do. I feel like a lot of people in these situations, you know, they have a family and then all these feelings come back, the way you were feeling when you were younger. But the second that I came out, it literally got worse. It was just this general hatred that was coming out. They didn’t understand the term “queer.” They didn’t understand why I was doing this.

Last month, Quebecoise singer Béatrice Martin, better known as Coeur de Pirate, wrote a letter coming out as queer. it’s important that they say they’re openly queer for younger people. He looked like a guy who was totally straight, which is ridiculous to say, and he waved at me and I said hi. It was like, “Oh, this is a safe place for them.” They came to my show and I’d never felt that before.

The 26-year-old’s coming out was in response to the devastating shooting at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando. But I assume there was a great deal of positive feedback as well? When this happens, it’s really magical and it feels like you’re actually doing something.