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Christian Cooper is an American writer and editor based in New York City.
Biography
Cooper is a graduate of Harvard University’s class of 1984, is a biomedical editor at Health Science Communications.
Cooper has written storied for Marvel Comics Presents, and introduced the first gay character (Yoshi Mishima) into the Star Trek comics. An avid birdwatcher, Cooper is a current member of the board of directors of the NYC chapter of the Audubon Society, and can be seen as one of the birders featured in the documentary Birders: The Central Park Effect.
In addition, Cooper served as co-chair of the board of directors of the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in the late 1980s. During the time, GLAAD was still a grass-roots, New York-based group organizing protest rallies against anti-gay violence, and making television appearances to correct misleading programming about LGBT lives.
Cooper has also published a prose book titled Songs Of The Metamythos, under the pen name C.F. Cooper. The book is a journey through a new mythology inclusive of all ethnicities and sexual/gender identities.
Central Park incident (May 2020)
In May 2020, while birdwatching, Cooper, filmed a racially charged encounter he had with a woman whose dog was off the leash. The incident attracted attention after the video aired on CNN.