How does gender as a category of analysis function as a tool for queer histories? In our examinations of queer of color homemaking, labor strikes by queer service workers, and the gender politics of urban renewal, we put into conversation how racialized, classed and queered notions of gender structured urban environmnents and relations in cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and Minneapolis in the 20th and 21st centuries. Though each case presents its own specific arrangements of gender, we will draw out the methodological and theoretical threads that link our work together. These overlaps present new interpretations of feminist scholarship on social reproduction and the family and points to new horizons in queer of color critique that thinks beyond the violent ordering of gentrification. These constellations of relations, to use Doreen Massey’s definition of place, have much to tell us about how gender functioned as a vector of power within the formation of urban space. This panel brings together both established and upcoming scholars across a diversity of historical subfields and institutions. By bringing together queer, trans, and queer-of-color historians focused broadly on questions of transnational immigration, labor, social reform, urban history, and carceral studies, this panel highlights the exciting new directions in the history of gender and sexuality in America.