Steven Dunbar-Edge
Steven Dunbar grew up in the Yukon. School was hard for a gay boy and he left when he was eighteen. He worked in Alberta doing a telecommunications job for fifteen years before returning to the Yukon.1)
In 2004, Steven Dunbar and future husband Rob Edge petitioned the Yukon Supreme Court for the right to wed. They won and Yukon became the fourth jurisdiction in Canada to legalize same-sex marriage. Between 2004 and 2008, there were seventeen same sex marriages in the territory: four between males and thirteen between females. In Whitehorse, lesbians outnumbered gays by about twenty to one. Stephen is a gay parent, sharing custody of two girls with a lesbian couple. Dunbar-Edge launched a touring business that catered to the gay community, Yukon Pride Adventures. They marketed to the gay and lesbian population, but anyone was welcome.2) Steven and Rob adopted their hyphenated last name so they could travel in countries that don’t recognize same-sex marriages and claim a family relationship in case of an accident.3)