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Still Devoted to Each Other, Picky Eating and All
Terry Cosentino and Tom Rock try not to make a habit of cutting others in line. But when they do see fit to leapfrog ahead of people, it's with a clean conscience.
When they pushed past competitors as contestants on the shows 'Ellen's Game of Games' (2020) and 'The Amazing Race' (2006), for example, they were just doing their reality TV duty.
Their wedding date is more representative of their grace and fortitude when situational stakes are high. Though they could have wed as early as 2011, when New York legalized same-sex marriages, Mr. Cosentino and Dr. Rock, then together for seven years, chose to hold off until after the Supreme Court's June 2015 decision requiring all states to recognize these unions.
'We didn't want to cheat the system,' said Mr. Cosentino, the senior corporate events manager at Constant Contact, a marketing company. He and Dr. Rock, who holds a doctorate in education from Columbia's Teachers College and is the chief student affairs officer and associate vice president there, married Nov. 12, 2016. Dr. Ruth Westheimer, then a colleague of Dr. Rock's, was among the 230 guests.
'We wanted it to be all right for every couple, not just some,' Mr. Cosentino said.
As supporters around the country marked the 10th anniversary of the landmark legal ruling during Pride Month, Mr. Cosentino, 64, and Dr. Rock, 58, who live in Manhattan, planned to acknowledge it in their usual way.
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