Our latest issue of 2025, the year of têtu·’s 30th anniversary, is also the first of 2026. That is why it includes your horoscope for the coming 365 days – you’re welcome. Also on the menu, a special Cabaret dossier, meetings: Camille Cottin, Miles Heizer, Fatima Daas, Nathan Ambrosioni, Amandine Gay, Jeremy Scott, Tahnee… In short, here is the table of contents of têtu· issue 245!
- Camille Cottin on the cover of têtu·
From the hilarious Connasse to our beloved Andréa in Dix pour Cent, rival to Gaga in House of Gucci or a tender mother in Toni, en famille, Camille Cottin, who today stars in Nathan Ambrosioni’s latest film, Les enfants vont bien, has managed to build throughout her career a gallery of inspiring female characters with a strong personality. She is our season’s cover star, and she agreed to participate in the photo shoot for têtu·, with the full photo spread and the long interview the actress gave us—find all the images from the shoot and the interview in the magazine.
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- Report: in the Cantal with Caroline Grandjean
Targeted by a lesbophobe crow, the school principal Caroline Grandjean-Paccoud took her own life on the first day of the 2025 school year. After the shock, questions. We returned to Moussages, the village where she taught, and met her widow, Christine.
- Special dossier: Cabaret!
Extravagance, sequins and glitter are inseparable from a healthy dose of subversion and queerness. The cabaret, whose roots lie in Montmartre of the Belle Époque and the Berlin of the Weimar era, has seen a welcome revival in recent years: an opportunity to dedicate a special dossier to it! With documentary filmmaker Céline du Chéné, who has produced a beautiful book about it, we reflect on the 150 years of cabaret history, a largely queer story. And in the gang from the Carrousel of the 1950s, we present Fétiche, 90 this year and who, along with Bambi, Coccinelle and a few others, were both cabaret stars and pioneers of trans identity. Naturally, a spotlight on today’s cabaret scene: Martin Dust and his Cabaret de Poussière, the itinerant La Bouche, and pianist Charly Voodo, a pillar of Madame Arthur.
- HIV: 30 years after the Black Year
Just before the advent of antiretroviral therapy, 1995 marked the peak of mortality from HIV/AIDS. Thirty years after this dark year, the association Les Ami·es du Patchwork des noms preserves the memory of those who died, often overlooked or even deliberately silenced, by mending the square pieces that, at the time, served as symbolic tombstones. A report from its workshops, where memory is woven by creating an intergenerational link.
In 30 years, the HIV front has changed everything. With the arrival of new treatments, the TaSP that renders the virus undetectable and thus non-transmissible, and then PrEP that protects against HIV infection, gay sexualities have also evolved. Once feared and ostracized, semen is making a comeback, now celebrated and enjoyed.
This dossier includes an interview with Camille Spire, president of the association AIDES, who warns against the decline in funding for the fight against HIV and the weakening of the NGO sector.
- 2025, the year Fatima Daas
Her first novel, The Little Last One, was adapted to the cinema this year by Hafsia Herzi: it returned from the Cannes Festival with the Queer Palm, as well as the best female performance award awarded to Nadia Melliti, its lead actress. At just 30, the writer has just published her second novel, Playing the Game, confirming the emergence on the literary scene of a singular new queer voice. We met her at her home in Aubervilliers.
- When Our Queer Ancestors Step Out of the Shadows
In many families, the hidden history of a long-separated “confirmed bachelor” uncle or a remaining “old maid” aunt is passed down… until the questions of queer descendants finally reveal the naked truth: uncle was just gay, and aunt a lesbian. In the “Our Queer Lives” section, touching stories of family histories that are at once intimate and political.
- Against populism, for our rights
This final issue of 2025, marking têtu·’s 30 years of struggle but also a worrying rise of populism in power, could not ignore the political context: an interview with journalist Philippe Corbé, who deciphers the Trumpist strategy in his book Weapons of Mass Distraction, and with former Minister of Justice Éric Dupont-Moretti, who continues to wield the sword against the far right. Among those fighting on the ground, a meeting with Viktória Radványi, president of the Budapest Pride association, who organized this year a historic Pride march that bravely confronted the state-sponsored homophobia of Viktor Orbán.
On the eve of a new electoral year, since municipal elections will be held in spring 2026, candidates commit, by publishing a manifesto in our pages, to defy the current law to finally facilitate the lives of trans people by allowing, once elected or re-elected, the change of gender on civil status without going through the court.
On our screens
If winter is the ideal season for a binge of series and films, this year’s lineup is a delight. In cinemas, two particular favorites: The Sound of Memories, a very beautiful gay melodrama with Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor, whose director Oliver Hermanus granted us an interview. And Love Me Tender, a successful adaptation of Constance Debré’s autobiographical novel. You will also find in our pages Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, who reprises her role as Sylvie Grateau in season 5 of Emily in Paris on Netflix, Nicolas Maury, who directed for Arte the series Les Saisons, and Miles Heizer who wins our hearts in the series Boots.
Nicolas Huchard Makes Monte-Cristo Dance
Choreographer of our icons, from Lady Gaga to Aya Nakamura via Madonna, Nicolas Huchard this year ventures into musical theatre by conceiving the choreography for The Legend of Monte-Cristo, the new event musical. It is in the very beautiful Château de Monte-Cristo, in Port-Marly, that we met him and he lent himself to an elegant and sexy photo shoot.
But we’re not telling you everything: to your têtu·, and enjoy reading!
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