Q&A with Tyrone Creech Jr

Tyrone Creech Jr, Youth Leadership Organizer for GSAFE, will talk about his experiences working with LGBTQIA+ community here and abroad, working with youth, and his own journey.

Tyrone Creech Jr. comes from one of the longest standing black families in Madison, going back four full generations. Graduating from East High School in 2007, Tyrone went on to UW-Platteville to focus on his successful post high school athletics, where he discovered himself and came out at the age of 21. He returned to Madison shortly after, determined to explore and experience the new community he now found himself to be a part of. He joined the Madison Minotaurs, an LGBT rugby team which he played on every year, allowing him to not only make a name for himself, but also interact with many different sorts of people that called the queer community their home. When he was 27, he finally decided…