On Sundays it hosted members of the New Orleans Metropolitan Community Church. in the French Quarter above another bar, the Jimani Lounge. The UpStairs Lounge was a gay bar on Chartres St. Many of the mourners were from the New Orleans’s LGBT community who gathered on the Mississippi River levee near the Governor Nicholls’ Street wharf in the French Quarter. “It was a record none of us wanted us broken,” said Frank Perez last Sunday night at a vigil of nearly 300 people for the 49 victims in Orlando.