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Over two months after police said a man shouted anti-gay slurs at a 12-year old boy on Manhattan’s Lower East side before striking him with a belt, a suspect has been taken into custody and charged with hate crimes. On Sunday, the NYPD arrested 37-year-old Brooklyn resident Kevin Maxwell and charged him with second-degree assault, menacing, and acting in a manner injurious to a child, as the New York Daily Newsreported. Public records reviewed by Them show that Maxwell was being held at the Eric.

Apparently, the damn phones really are paying attention to everything, including the innermost thoughts you have yet to unpack yourself. A new study found that the TikTok algorithm might know you’re queer before you even come to that realization yourself.

You might think we’d left the 2010s behind, but there’s still an unfortunate lingering tendency to grasp pearls when Lena Dunham opens her mouth. The Girls creator grabbed headlines this weekend for reportedly making a joke about gay porn while delivering a speech at the wedding of Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce, which took place on Friday at Madison Square Garden.

The outside observer might not think there’s a lot to know about the Minions. They’re little pill-shaped, bright yellow creatures who talk funny, what else do you need to know? But for the kind of person planning to show up to the premiere of Minions & Monsters in a full suit and tie, there is deep lore to be mined.

A version of this first appeared on The Advocate. As many queer kink communities have brought to the forefront, sex is nothing if not play. Adult play should be fun, and as many of us have known our entire lives, nothing makes play more fun than adding a good toy. However, finding the perfect sex toy can be a long and arduous task, particularly when you may not know all that exists at your disposal.

This story originally appeared on Out. Kataluna Enriquez, who made history as the first openly transgender woman to compete in the Miss USA pageant, was involved in a serious car accident that left her hospitalized for two weeks. The Filipino-American beauty queen opened up on Instagram about her “near-death experience” and how it changed how she views life. “For the two weeks I was in the hospital, I’ve had many nights where I cried thinking I could no longer be the same person,” she wrote.

A gay couple from Chicago who were living in Mexico City have been found dead in a grave that included two other bodies, per Chicago ABC affiliate WLS. Zafar Padamsee Mawani and Guillermo Jaffet Hidalgo Ortiz had been missing since May, per WLS. The couple had only recently moved to Mexico in October and were living in a neighborhood in the southern part of Mexico City. The bodies were found on June 17 in a wooded area on the outskirts of Mexico City, per People.

You might think that a Supreme Court ruling, such as the recent one which gave states the green light to continue banning transgender women and girls from female sports teams, would be the final word on something. But that’s not the case for fifth-place loser Riley Gaines, who still feels that there are trans kids out there she can bully.

A Kentucky church is facing online backlash for subjecting an audience filled with children to a skit that included a tactical military assault in which church staff shot “the devil.” The video, which has been widely circulated and reviewed by Them, shows an audience of children and adults gathered for Vacation Bible School at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church in Lexington.

Sign up for The Agenda, Them’s news and politics newsletter, delivered Thursdays. After the Supreme Court dumped its decision allowing states to ban transgender women and girls from female sports teams, and on the final day of Pride Month no less, the stars of RuPaul’s Drag Race have been very vocal in condemning the ruling. "This decision is heartbreaking for many in our community," Drag Race season 15 winner Sasha Colby told Entertainment Weekly.