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Com slash DoB's Media. California Historical Landmark Number 1063.

This is the marker on the commemorative plaque outside the Black Cat Tavern in Los Angeles's Silver Lake neighborhood,

where on February 11, 1967, activists held one of the first gay rights demonstrations in the nation,

two years before New York City's

historic stonewall riots. The protest came in response to the actions of the

LAPD brutal and useless then is now who raided the gay bar and arrested patrons for same sex kissing,

consequently forcing some of the convicted to register as sex offenders.

Demonstrators then organized and assembled holding signs reading no more abuse of our

rights and dignity abolish arbitrary arrests and in some instances simply

peace in Silver Lake for For much of its history as a defined

neighborhood, Silver Lake was known as an enclave for gay artist in the

Latino working class. But by the 2000s as housing prices pushed gentrification from LA's west coast ever eastward,

Silver Lake rapidly transitioned into its current state as a hotbed for hipster duffises.

By 2012, when former fine dining chefs Thomas A Ono and Jitake founded a

ramen restaurant name for the neighborhood, the conversion was complete. But despite

its surrounding area's reputation for self-perity, the Noodle shop developed a reputation for authenticity.

Aona was raised in Japan and studied under a master-rommon chef before perfecting his recipe state side.

And as the label Silver Lake has become shorthand for cool and trendy,

the owners chose to keep the name as the concept grew citywide and eventually into a nationwide chain.

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