--- title: Watch Gay Black Dads Kordale and Kaleb In This Beautiful Nikon Ad description: Kordale and Kaleb Lewis, two black gay fathers who went viral last year are starring in a new Nikon campaign with their children. canonical: https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/ author: Helen Regan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-01-15T04:05:38.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T08:56:36.390Z og:title: See Gay Black Dads Star In a Nikon Ad og:description: Video tells their family's inspiring story og:url: https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt559c37153c6bc964/698779fce20a874778a84843/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-12-02-14-pm.png?branch=production og:image:width: 525 og:image:height: 347 og:image:alt: Screen Shot 2015-01-15 at 12.02.14 PM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Gay Black Dads Star In a Nikon Ad twitter:description: Video tells their family's inspiring story twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt559c37153c6bc964/698779fce20a874778a84843/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-12-02-14-pm.png?branch=production ---  # Watch Gay Black Fathers Kordale and Kaleb Star In This Beautiful Nikon Ad by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 15, 2015 4:05 AM UTC by [Helen Regan](https://time.com/author/helen-regan/) ## Helen Regan Jan 15, 2015 4:05 AM UTC Kordale and Kaleb Lewis are [starring](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/kordale-kaleb-nikon-campaign%5Fn%5F6464364.html) in a new Nikon campaign with their children. The pair shot to fame when a photo of the two dads doing their daughters’ hair in the mornings went viral. It also drew homophobic backlash on Twitter with people taking issue with two gay black men raising a family. Nikon’s “I Am Generation Campaign” shows the family telling their story in an inspiring video. Kordale and Kaleb [told](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/kordale-kaleb-nikon-campaign%5Fn%5F6464364.html) the Huffington Post that the photo and now the video had changed their lives and how people viewed them. “There will be those people who do not agree and will post negative comments or snarl their faces, but there are much more people who do agree and commend us as fathers and community activists,” the pair said in a statement. \[[Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/kordale-kaleb-nikon-campaign%5Fn%5F6464364.html)\] Watch Gay Black Dads Kordale and Kaleb In This Beautiful Nikon Ad ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/"},"headline":"Watch Gay Black Fathers Kordale and Kaleb Star In This Beautiful Nikon Ad","datePublished":"2015-01-15T04:05:38.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T08:56:36.390Z","description":"Video tells the family's inspiring story","url":"https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/","keywords":["Living","Family","People"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt559c37153c6bc964/698779fce20a874778a84843/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-12-02-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Helen Regan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/helen-regan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt559c37153c6bc964/698779fce20a874778a84843/screen-shot-2015-01-15-at-12-02-14-pm.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Screen Shot 2015-01-15 at 12.02.14 PM","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-living/","name":"Living"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3668594/gay-black-fathers-kordale-and-kaleb-nikon/","name":"Watch Gay Black Fathers Kordale and Kaleb Star In This Beautiful Nikon Ad"}}]}] ```