Christian Cooper is a Black American writer, author, and bird watcher from New York. He has written a number of stories for Marvel Comics Presents. Cooper was Marvel's first openly gay writer and editor. He introduced the first gay male character in Star Trek, Yoshi Mishima, in the Starfleet Academy series, which was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award in 1999. He also introduced the first openly lesbian character for Marvel, Victoria Montesi, and created and authored Queer Nation: The Online Gay Comic. Cooper was also an associate editor for Alpha Flight #106, in which the character Northstar came out as gay.