Manoel Soares says he lived on the streets and worked as a security guard for transvestites

Journalist Manoel Soares, 43, was moved to recall the most difficult phase of his life at the end of the 1990s, in Porto Alegre. The current presenter of Globo’s “Encontro”, was a homeless person during a time when he was unemployed. “In the North Zone there is an overpass called Viaduto Obirici and I started to sleep there. I would lie there at 11 pm and at 5 am, the trucks would start to rumble. street,” he revealed.

There were four months of many difficulties and Manoel ended up discovering other ways to support himself. “There were some transvestites in the front street, where I slept and they didn’t have anyone to take care of them. The homophobes threw stones, threatened them and such. run after the guys. I was a transvestite security at night”, began Manoel Soares in the interview with the podcast podPah this Sunday (14), wrongly referring to transvestites in the masculine gender.

“We’re talking about a guy in his early 20s, black, big guy, without any malice in his life”, recalled the social activist and co-founder of Central Única das Favela. Manoel Soares was born in Salvador, Bahia, but moved to the capital of Rio Grande do Sul in 1997, where he stayed until 2016. He also revealed that just before being called by Fátima Bernardes to work on the “Encontro” he planned to resign from RBS, a Globo affiliate in Rio Grande do Sul. He wanted to open a cheese bread business.

“I was there for about 15 years, an affiliate’s salary, right? It wasn’t brilliant. I arrived for the denial [Dinorá Rodrigues, mulher de Soares] and I said: ‘Let’s start a cheese bread franchise, because I think our future lies in cheese bread. I needed some initial money, which would be the termination”, said the presenter, drawing laughter in the studio.