John Mahoney/Canwest News ServiceThe Café Cleopatra strip club on St. Laurent is one of the last businesses in Montreal’s once busy red-light district.
MONTREAL — With its sign promising “strip-teaseuses ” and “danseuses à go-go,” Café Cleopatra is one of the last vestiges of what was once a bustling red-light district on St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal’s Main. Now, most of the storefronts on the block are boarded-up, and if a city-backed developer gets its way, the red light will soon flicker out. Cleopatra’s strippers and drag queens will make way for office workers.
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“What is called the red light has not existed for 15 years,” he said in an interview. “In the sector where we are working, most businesses are closed, with sheets of plywood in the window…. People are trying to portray the Cleopatra as something extraordinary. However it’s simply a strip club. That’s all it is.”
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For Linda, a stripper who said she has been dancing at bars in the neighbourhood for 30 years, losing the Cleopatra is unthinkable. She said it is the only strip club in the city that welcomes dancers of varying body shapes, ethnic backgrounds and ages (she’s 49.)

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