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Paper Cup founder Michelle Langan says she hopes the coffee shop can be a friendly gathering point for anyone planning to join the march.<\/p>\n
She said:<\/p>\n
\u201cSometimes people go on their own and they can feel a bit of trepidation, and it\u2019s always good if you\u2019re with a few people because you can have a laugh, so I thought it would be nice if we were a pre-march point for people to meet,\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cThe thing about our shop is everybody\u2019s welcome, and it\u2019s about challenging stereotypes. Our customers experience prejudice in their own way so there is a similar message to Pride and we wanted to do something more to show our support this year.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCarl has been a very vocal supporter of the LGBT community, and he\u2019s just done an Attitude cover this month so I thought it would be good if he could come in.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe said yes, so he\u2019ll be there first thing in the morning to help with our homeless service and then after that hopefully we\u2019ll have lots of customers who are going to Pride coming in to see him and get served by him.<\/p>\n
\u201cCarl will be our third guest barista, after Tim Burgess from The Charlatans kicked it off. He\u2019s been in a couple of times when The Charlatans have played in Liverpool, he\u2019s been a big supporter and he\u2019s come on board as one of our patrons.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe also had Enter Shikari helping out earlier this year. We had a queue down the street when they were in and lots of the people who came for coffee had been sleeping out the night before to get tickets for their gig.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d love to have more guest baristas because I think every person who comes in brings their own diverse group of people who are finding out about the shop and the work we do. Obviously fans of Tim Burgess were a different age group to fans of Enter Shikari, and now anyone coming into see Carl is going to be another different group.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt would be amazing to get someone who\u2019s playing at the Arena or at Anfield and I\u2019d have loved to have got Dave Grohl in when the Foo Fighters were at Anfield, so if they play Liverpool again we could see if he had the time because I know he does a lot in America with people who are homeless.\u201d<\/p>\n
In addition to serving coffees and breakfast sandwiches ahead of the march, Paper Cup Coffee will also have arts and crafts with resident artist Marcus G Cotton, so people can make and wear friendship bracelets and badges before heading to the march.<\/p>\n
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