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WARNING: This file contains descriptions of homophobia. Three food trucks have withdrawn from Pride events in a town in southern Manitoba after receiving threats of vandalism, the president of Pembina Valley Pride says. One of the food truck owners who planned to be at Pride in Altona's Centennial Park this Saturday received online threats that the vehicle would be vandalized with graffiti, Pauline Emerson-Froebe told CBC on Wednesday. The threats came shortly after the volunteer-led organization posted a list of participating food trucks on its social media accounts earlier in the week, said Emerson-Froebe, the president of Pembina Valley Pride. "It's an intimidation tactic and it's threatening their livelihood," she said.

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