Unfortunately for their 175,000 followers, no one’s posting a thing.

And Anthony, who looks like Tyson Beckford’s twin, is corralling the three dogs, Dino, Pebbles, and Bam Bam. Eight-year-old Desmiray and 7-year-old Maliyah are having a sassy, Iggy Azalea-themed dance party. When I meet them on a sunny Saturday in April, Lewis and his 6-year-old son, Kordale Jr., are planting a little tree in the yard. Honestly, that picture was just a picture to me.'īut even if they weren’t trying, the family is pure Instagram gold. I’ve always put up pictures of my children, for years. 'It hurt so much that people in our own community would say these things. Then came The Huffington Post, People, and Daily Mail posts commenters gone wild ('rock on, guys!', 'will you please adopt me?') from Denmark to Australia 150,000 new Insta followers a national Nikon commercial that paid 'a lot of money,' Lewis confirms and Lewis’s gut-wrenching, self-published memoir Picture Perfect, ('a ’ Precious’ story,' his book agent, Annette Johnson, told me by phone, in which he writes about being molested by a family friend as a little boy, and the absence of his dad, who was serving two life sentences for double murder, convicted in the stabbing deaths of two people in Lewis’s hometown of Chicago.)īut going viral also meant haters and trolls, both racist and homophobic (sample comment: 'May God be with those kids … this is dead wrong'), creeps finding their personal emails and sending with anti-gay rants, and, worst of all, comments accusing them of using their kids for fame and money. 'These Black Gay Dads and Their Three Kids Have the Cutest Instagram Ever,' announced a BuzzFeed list that amassed more than 1 million views.

You know it when you see it - the ornately tatted couple brushing and ponytailing their daughters’ hair before school - because it was all over the Internet last year. The family photo blown-up poster-size and hanging in the foyer here is a shirtless, in-the-mirror Instagram selfie. But walking into their big, handsome home in suburban Atlanta, I see another reason. Kordale Lewis and Kaleb Anthony like to call theirs a 'modern family' - because they’re two dads raising three kids.

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