ABOVE: Thanks to Socialite Life for intro'ing us to Javier!

BELOW: Keep reading for a see-through selfie, a Kushner smack-down and more  ...

ABOVE: To Tahiti with Gus Kenworthy.

BELOW: Keep reading for the performances of the year, a gay-book discovery, effortlessly hot nudity and more ...

ABOVE: They did say Gods of Rugby.

BELOW: Keep reading for Gregg Sulkin's hot workout, Trump's not-so-hot taxes, fresh Bomer and more ...

ABOVE: Shoot bait! More here.

BELOW: Keep reading for hairy hotness, Trump's Saudi Arabian ties, Melania declares herself the world's #1 biggest bullying victim, nekkid bros on the beach and more ...

Btoo Allami and Nayyef Hrebid were two Iraqi solders who fell in love on the battlefield — in a country where gay people are routinely murdered, including by their own families.

Their story is incredible, and includes having to be separated, one of them being threatened by his family, and a struggle to reacclimate in a culture far from their own ...

Aaron Chalmers — proving big packages come in small things. (Image via selfie/OMG Blog)

OMG Blog: Ex on the Beach star Aaron Chalmers shares uncut, uncensored selfies. (Work Unfriendly)

Newsweek: Sobering history lesson — how Europe almost liberated its LGBTQ citizens ... just before reversing course and trying to exterminate them.

Far be it from me to want to turn to fascism, but all the same, we have to agree that in some things those regimes have sometimes done good … One day Hitler and Mussolini woke up and said, “Honestly, the scandal has gone on long enough” …And … the inverts … were chased out of Germany and Italy the very next day. — Newsweek

Pink News: Karar Noshi, an aspiring actor from Iraq, was reportedly abducted and murdered for looking too gay.

Noshi called his photos “cinematic works of art, which I pride myself on.”

Huff Post: In response to North Korea's successful test of a missile that could hit Alaska, Trump blasts China, enflaming tensions. WWIII as a distraction?

Just saying.

New Republic: The queer history of a 1996 film you really need to see, Cheryl Dunye's The Watermelon Woman.

Saw it when it came out. Loved it. (Image via Metrograph)

Deadline: Redditor whose anti-CNN video was tweeted by Trump got exposed, issued apology for violent and bigoted posts, disappeared from Reddit. Full apology ...

Chelsea Manning up (Video still via ABC)

Chelsea Manning is speaking for the first time since her release from prison following receiving clemency from departing President Barack Obama. (Obama did not grant her a pardon.)

In a new interview with Good Morning America, she says she felt compelled to go to WikiLeaks after witnessing the messy decisions being made by the U.S. in its war against insurgents, and is adamant that she never felt the documents she leaked would harm her country.

Keep watching, and wait till the end, where she says what she would like to communicate to President Obama ...

(Video still via The Ellen DeGeneres Show)

Iraqi soldiers who fell in love during the Iraq War and received asylum in the West meet Ellen. Video after the jump.

Trump freakin' out over phony voter fraud while several staffers, his son-in-law and daughter are registered in two states — apiece.

Trump cozies up to Putin even more.

Another dispiriting story of a server being denied a tip for being a “faggot.”

(Image via Sam Curry)

Hot gay rags, plus Sam Curry's latest hot selfie.

Uh, you haven't seen a music video like this one!

Keep reading to watch the now-married gay Iraqi soldiers on The Ellen DeGeneres Show ...