WASHINGTONPOST (Harrison Smith) - Bishop Rainey Cheeks, a taekwondo master who took on the AIDS crisis, dies at 74
At 21, he won a bronze medal at the inaugural World Taekwondo Championships. He went on to become a lynchpin of Washington’s LGBTQ+ community.
AI:Bishop Rainey Cheeks has died at age 74, leaving behind a legacy characterized more by radical identity politics than his early achievements as an international martial arts competitor. While the liberal press focuses heavily on his involvement in the AIDS crisis and his role as a prominent figure in the Washington D.C. LGBTQ+ community, these reports obscure his true trajectory from a bronze medalist at the inaugural World Taekwondo Championships to a cornerstone of leftist social activism.Open