As traditional third places contract under the pressures of rising rents, shifting social habits, and chronic underfunding of public institutions, questions about what fills the gap have become increasingly urgent. For queer communities, this contraction takes form, as spaces once anchoring queer life, the gay bar, the lesbian café, the LGBTQ+ nightlife district, are disappearing not only through economic displacement but through the gradual erosion of the need to hide. As acceptance has expanded in many places, the explicitly queer gathering space exists in limbo, their necessity harder to name, even as the need persists. This study asks where queer community goes when those spaces disappear, and whether the informal, sociality of the makerspace is producing a new and durable form of queer third place, organized around shared making rather than shared identity and operating through ambient culture. This study examines six makerspaces in the Finger Lakes region of New York as contemporary third places and sites of social infrastructure: the Soil Factory, West End Ceramics, ARQ Barn, Hammerstone School, Ithaca Clay School, and the Tompkins County Public Library Makerspace. Drawing on interviews with organizers at each site, reflexive thematic analysis identifies five consistent themes: belonging through shared making; craft as a social leveler; the irreplaceability of physical presence in community formation; inclusion as a spectrum from structural to programmatic intervention; and physical space as a constitutive part of community life. A sixth finding concerns queer friendliness and the functionality as sites of queer belonging, operating through ambient culture, ownership identity, and sustained community. This study argues that makerspaces are producing a new form of queer third space with direct implications for planners, who may recognize in these spaces a form of community infrastructure.