This essay tells stories of gender and sexually nonconforming rural-to-urban migrant workers in two urban villages in Southern China. Based on an ethnography of their community-making through ‘cruising’—a pratice of seeking non-heterosexual sexual encounters in semi-public spaces—I argue that ‘queer life’ in China is divided by a spatialised structure of class. While LGBTQ+ individuals who are urban middle-class residents have gained visibility in tier one and tier two cities, migrant workers in these same cities face precarious conditions. This should compel the LGBTQ+ movement to ask different questions and confront its own economic and spatial exclusions.