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With a distance of five years, this crisis is like a pearl on a string of shocks, each one normalising the decline in quality of life that precedes it. Over nine months we travelled across the UK within this moment of crisis, in empty gay bars we made ourselves vessels for peoples stories and outpourings of anxiety and grief. The emergence of Brexit along with a newly flourishing hard-right political rhetoric led to a vast increase in hate crimes against the community particularly affecting people of colour and trans people, the list goes on. HIV transmission levels amongst gay men reached a national high whilst the NHS simultaneously attempted to remove PREP, a preventative drug for protection against HIV from their services. Gay bars were closing weekly as gay villages, one of the centres of gay life were hollowed out and transformed into investment playgrounds for property developers. The directory affected us so deeply in part because at the time of making the conditions of LGBTQ culture in 2015/16 were those of a culture in crisis. When we reflect on making the UK Gay Bar Directory we are not able to perceive the directory objectively as a work of art, rather we feel, work and live with the lingering emotional consequence.