On 15 November 1985, gay men in Poland woke up as the police knocked on their door. The "Hiacynt action" was a series of police and secret services' surveillance operations targeting gay men, showcasing what Michel Foucault called "biopolitical power". This book shows the persistence of the "state of exception" (Agamben) for LGBTQIA+ communities; the archive query it depicts demonstrates the continuous use of Hiacynt documents in current Polish police's operations. The book engages with resistance to the archive and perversions of institutional care for the population, offering a transversal queer critical theory of the state, inspired by Hegel.