[NEWS] Five LGBTQ links: Jim Egan, Queer Appalachia, Latinx, Italian convent, Baron von Steuben

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• At the CLGA, Craig Jennex writes about the early activism of Canadian LGBT activist Jim Egan, writing letters to defend gay people in post-war homophobic times.


• Them profiles the Queer Appalachia Instagram account and its creators.


• Them reports on a survey suggesting that one-fifth of young Latinx people in the US identify as queer.


• JSTOR Daily reports on a lesbian sex scandal at a Renaissance Italy convent.


• The Nib shares a delightful, and historically accurate, cartoon describing how out German aristocrat Baron von Steuben played a critical role in the success of the Americans in their war of independence.