--- 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: 2026-10-01T09:02:32.270Z 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&width=525&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 525 og:image:height: 295 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&width=525&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Gay Black Fathers Kordale and Kaleb Star In This Beautiful Nikon Ad > Sponsored content. 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Kordale and Kaleb Lewis, two black gay fathers who went viral last year after posting a photo to their Instagram of their family’s morning routine, are starring in a new Nikon campaign with their children._ 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. \[[Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/14/kordale-kaleb-nikon-campaign%5Fn%5F6464364.html)\] ## Transcript We just want people to know that, hey, we're normal. And you can't judge people on their normal. You really can't. Everybody get a pose. Hi my name is Cordell. And my name is Caleb. And we live in Atlanta, Georgia. These are our babies. Desmarie, Maliyah, and Cordell. Eight, seven, and six. [ MUSIC ] [ LAUGH ] You know the routine basically is, we get up at 5: 30 am, and eat breakfast, and then, we do our daughter's hair. Parents that can get up at 5: 30 and do their daughter's hair, no matter who they are, that's a family. We pick out their clothes for them and then we kiss them goodbye. And that's typically what we do in the morning. What happened was we were in the bathroom, we were doing the girls hair and I said oh let me take a picture. In the picture we caption you know this is us every day getting up at 5: 30 in the morning and getting our daughters ready for school. And it was a simple innocent picture and Cordell was just like I'm just letting y'all. I know what I have to deal with, and then the next thing you know, it went viral and I I'm still amazed. I'm like, how did this picture go viral? The convos were a trip. It didn't make me feel any way because I know they don't know what we go through, I know that they don't know our children, I know they don't know our lifestyles, they don't know how we live. A picture is so much more than a thousand. Is words. Aah! [ LAUGH ] I think that this camera, as we grow and as the kids grow, will be better able to explain to anybody the type of family that we are with the pictures and the things that we've done and how we've raised them. Happy New Year. We, as parents, bring kids into the world, and we have to guide them to be better people than we are. And we want them to be better people than we are. And we want them to succeed and do things that we weren't able to do. And those kids have our heart. And I can't sit here and explain to you in words, why we feel the way that we feel for our children. But those are our kids. And no one else can tell me anything different. 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