ABSTRACT
This chapter explores a number of strategies that create the conditions to make queer and trans people of colour lives liveable in the context of cultural homogenisation and widespread gentrification in Oakland, California. The first of two case studies is a monthly queer party in a dance club. My analysis explores replicable strategies for queering nightlife with the goal to create ephemeral safe spaces. The second is a mixed-use building in an immigrant neighbourhood housing several grassroots queer organisations and individual and reveals the necessary structural components of queering processes to sustain the lives of queer and trans people of colour long term.
