Journalist and presenter Manoel Soares, 43, told the Podpah podcast he was homeless in Porto Alegre. Born in Salvador, he moved to Rio Grande do Sul in 1997 and stayed there until 2016.
“Around 1999 the job we got dropped, we were left with nothing. My brother who had gone with me came back and I became homeless. I was 19 to 20 years old,” he explained to the attraction’s presenters. , Igor Cavalari and Thiago Marques.
“In the North [de Porto Alegre] There was an overpass and I started sleeping there. At 11 a.m. I lay there, in the morning at 5 a.m. the trucks started to snore, we got up and cleaned up. I spent four months in this skin,” Manoel explained.
“At night, you eventually find ways to feed yourself. There were some transvestites on the street with no one caring about ‘them’ in front of them. Homophobes went there, threw rocks at ‘them’ and stuff. ‘They’ yelled If anyone wanted to do anything to ‘them’ I should run after the guys,” he added, incorrectly referring to male transvestites.
“I was a night watchman for transvestites. ‘The boys’ who prostituted themselves there on Francisco Trein Street was a little further… We’re talking about a guy in his early 20s, a big, big guy no malícia of life,” concludes the presenter of “Encontro com Patrícia Poeta” (TV globe).