Journalist and TV Globo presenter Manoel Soares, 43, lived on the streets and was a transvestite security guard at the time. He made the revelation that he was homeless in Porto Alegre. From Salvador he moved to Rio Grande do Sul in 1997 and stayed there until 2016.
Photo credit: Reproduction/Instagram @manoelsoaresManoel Soares lived on the streets for 4 months as a transvestite security guard
“Around 1999 the jobs were lost, we were left with nothing. My brother who went with me came back and I became homeless. I was 1920 years old,” he explained to the show’s hosts, Igor Cavalari and Thiago Marques.
“In the North [de Porto Alegre] There was an overpass and I started sleeping there. At 11 o’clock at night I lay there, at 5 o’clock in the morning the trucks were already starting to snore, we got up and cleaned up. I stayed in that skin for about four months,” Manoel explained.
“At night you find ways to feed yourself. There were some transvestites on Vorderstrasse that no one cared about. Homophobes would go there, throw rocks at “them” and stuff. “They” told me that if anyone did anything to “them” I should run after the boys,” he added, incorrectly referring to male transvestites.
“I was a night watchman for transvestites. ‘The boys’ who prostitute themselves there, on FranciscoTreinStrasse, was a little further… We’re talking about a guy in his early 20s, fat black man, without any malice in life,” said the presenter of “Encontro with Patrícia Poeta (TV Globo).