Bishop Rainey Cheeks, a taekwondo master who took on the AIDS crisis, dies at 74
- Posted on August 15, 2026
- By Washington Post
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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.