This presentation uses the example of queer communities and community infrastructure to provide insights on belonging and inclusion for those at the margins. Historically and in the geographical and LGBTQ+ literature, physical LGBTQ+ community infrastructure such as bars, clubs and ‘gaybourhoods’ have been seen as central to the formation and nurturing of LGBTQ+ collective and individual identities, providing safe non-heteronormative spaces and key sites for community organising and mobilisation. Yet, critical research has increasingly challenged these places as equally exclusionary, embedded with gendered, racialised, ableist and ageist norms. Continuing this thread on community infrastructure, exclusion and belonging, this presentation draws on photovoice and semi-structured interviews with 14 LGBTQ+ multicultural people aged 50 and above in Australia. It demonstrates the micropolitics and exclusions in LGBTQ—particularly gay—community spaces and infrastructures, where they reflect inherent ageist and racist norms alongside homonormativity. Instead, LGBTQ+ multicultural people relied on community infrastructures diffused across space-times: occurring at homes, pop-up events and changing venues. Forming heterogenous or intersectional communities, they mobilised through word-of-mouth and concerted organisational or individual effort. Their fluid and diffused community organising was nonetheless also vulnerable and impacted by COVID-19, with lockdowns and restrictions disrupting plans and reduced the capacities of organisers. These examples demonstrate the creative and important building of community infrastructure from the bottom up. They call for a more critical view of community infrastructure that caters not just to the ‘mainstream’ minoritized groups but also for those on its margins.