Christian Cooper may be best known as the Black birder whose altercation with a white woman in Central Park in 2020 escalated into a national news story.
But he’s also a longtime gay activist and author who previously wrote and edited for Marvel Comics. This year, he published a memoir, “Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World,” in which a chapter is devoted to the Central Park incident.
He also hosts “Extraordinary Birder,” a National Geographic show that premiered in June on Disney+. Mr. Cooper, 60, lives in the East Village with his partner, John Zaia, 53, a bartender.
WIRED I get up at 5:30 a.m. with no alarm. It’s just when I pop awake. John sleeps later, so I get up and shut the bedroom door.