Taylor’s, from Valentino, was silk plaid, and Mr. For the reception that followed, they changed into vintage dinner jackets Mr. The Attire Both grooms wore dark Tom Ford suits at the ceremony. Where Flannery Exchange in Palm Springs, Calif. Goode said, “The concept of family, the idea, is dignified and uplifted and the whole extended family is brought in to celebrate and to share and to feel the great privilege of being part of something beautiful.” On This Day Speaking before the grooms and their guests, he asked: “What happens when two mature gentlemen, elders of the queer community, decide to get married?”Īnswering his own question, Mr. Taylor’s daughter, Michquel, and remarks by Mr. Tony Bradford, a minister of the Centers for Spiritual Living, officiated.īeau served as best dog at the ceremony, which also included a moment of silence honoring Mr. They were married April 9 in front of 72 guests on the rooftop of Flannery Exchange, an office building and events venue in downtown Palm Springs, with the San Jacinto Mountains as a backdrop. Their wedding, first planned for New Year’s Day 2022, was postponed because of the Omicron variant. Taylor move and their relationship soon moved a step forward. He is now a senior consultant there, and most recently helped create a national curriculum to train contact tracers for Covid.Ībout a month after he met Mr. prevention and care, mostly at the University of California, San Francisco, where he has worked in different capacities since 1998. Vincent has spent much of his career training health care providers in H.I.V. After graduating from San Francisco State University, he earned a master’s degree in marriage, family and child counseling from the California State University, Los Angeles. His grandparents on both sides were immigrants from the West African island of Cape Verde. Vincent, now 65, grew up in Sacramento, Calif., and is the youngest of his five sisters and two brothers. Last November, Michquel died of cancer at age 45. Taylor had a daughter, Michquel, with a woman he was in a relationship with before he came out. A grandfather of three and great-grandfather of four, Mr. He grew up in Mount Pleasant, Pa., and attended Edinboro University in Edinboro, Pa. Taylor, now 67, is the fourth of six boys. “I hadn’t felt this feeling in a long time,” he said. Taylor didn’t admit it in the moment, a fear of commitment had gotten the better of him. “But at this point, I was content with the fact that it may not happen.”
Vincent would think to himself, “‘Maybe I’ll go to this thing,’ or ‘Maybe I’ll wear the tighter sweater,’” he said. Vincent, who goes by Tim, was also quite used to being single by then. Both men were in their mid-to-late 50s and Mr. Taylor said, has helped him understand “what it meant to be in a relationship.”Įven with this firsthand knowledge, he had largely stopped pursuing a romantic life of his own when he met Timothy Vincent in August 2011 at a party hosted by Mr. There was also a famous fashion designer and his husband. Michael Taylor is the rare person who can say that much of what he’s learned about long-term relationships was on the job.Īs a private estate manager, he has spent years overseeing the lives of wealthy clients, who currently include Suzanne Somers and her husband Alan Hamel, and have included Lynda and Stewart Resnick, the couple behind POM Wonderful and Fiji water.