Having been here for 3 days, we decided it was time to venture into Le Village. The stretch of Rue St. Catherine between Berri-UQAM station and Rue Papineau is the Montreal equivalent of gay London's Old Compton Street, except.... completely different. In the summer, it's pedestrianised and the wide pavements are covered with 'terrasses' [for the non-Francophones, that's like an outdoor sitting area], and enormous red roses are strung up between the lamp-posts all the way down. Given that we'd walked past it before and seen they had a poster for a night called 'Popstars', we decided that Sky Bar would be the right place to scratch the itch to be at Popstarz on a Friday night. After a drink on the terrasse, we headed inside, partially to stalk a group of McGill Froshers [no one knows why they call it that.... 'frosh' is most certainly not a word] and woo them with our accents and there we found the veritable wonders of a drag show.
Essentially 4 of Montreal's most fabulous drag queens in the most divine outfits, lip-syncing and dancing to camp classics. Wonderful. The highlight? DEFINITELY our favourite queen + 2 gorgeous dancers bustin' a move to Lady Gaga's 'Telephone'. For your viewing pleasure:
It would appear the rumours are true: Montreal is a great place to be gay.
See y'all soon- I'm working on some posts that are more photo-centric to show the weird diversity of the architecture and the abundance and amazingness of the street art.
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