Forty-nine people died and 58 were injured at a place that had been a wellspring of weekly celebration, especially for those in the gay Latino community. night life - in all its prismatic, out-and-proud glory - was devastated by the mass shooting in the Orlando, Fla., nightclub Pulse. It was only a year ago that the world of L.G.B.T.Q. But “in our world, it is,” one guest in a top hat and tasseled mouthpiece said with a smile. To the uninitiated, this was anything but a normal Tuesday night in the city. Arias, 67, with the New York City skyline visible through the windows at Le Bain, the Standard hotel’s 18th-floor boîte. “Here we are, on top of the world!” said Mr.
Joey Arias, a gender-bending performer in the mold of a 1930s jazz chanteuse, was in his element as he looked out on the hundreds of plumed, spangled and painted 20-something men and women crowding the dance floor of Susanne Bartsch’s weekly summertime party, On Top.
