This thesis examines how queer Chicanx artists negotiate belonging under inner-cultural control through lowrider visual culture in The Q-Sides exhibition. The first chapter, “Up in Flames: Iconoclastic Por Vida,” focuses on Manuel Paul’s mural Por Vida in San Francisco’s Mission District. I begin with a formal analysis of the three panels of the mural to show how Paul transforms traditional Chicanx imagery to represent queer intimacy, transgender visibility, and lesbian autonomy within a historically masculine cultural context. The chapter then goes into the mural's presence on Instagram, revealing how comments and reactions demonstrate digital control of visibility, and uses Koritha Mitchell’s “know-your-place aggression” to interpret efforts to regulate queer visibility in the community. It also traces how these issues led to acts of vandalism and arson, framing the mural’s destruction within a broader history of policing the intersectional queer and Latinx bodies in public...