This editorial opens the summer 2026 issue of têtu·, available at your newsstands or delivered to you by subscription. A Pride issue dedicated to our adelphes from Senegal.
Photography: Élodie Martial
“It takes a village to raise a child”, says the proverb. It also takes a village to go dig up and burn, as happened in Senegal, the corpse of a man suspected of being homosexual. With the hardening of the country’s homophobic legislation, this machinery of hatred has sped up against the living: mass arrests on suspicion of homosexuality, assaults, lynchings filmed for social networks. The LGBT community knows what comes next: when a society begins designating enemies as “against nature,” a generalized hunt of queer bodies is organized.
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Sophie Brennan