Context: At SDCC 2017, Rebecca Sugar was asked about LGBT representation in her show. After saying that the next season of Steven Universe would have more LGBT representation, Rebecca Sugar went on to discuss the origins of Pride.

Rebecca Sugar: Um, and… yes, oh, yes! [laughs] There’s a fascinating document called the Queer Nation Manifesto, um, from the 90s that is very, uh, inspiring. I, I did a lot of reading about Brenda Howard. She is, she was very important to, um, inventing the concept of Pride.

Uh, and I think it’s a little hard to think about now, but somebody had to - a group of people had to get together and be like, “we should change the narrative - we should change how people talk about this, and we should get to be proud of ourselves?”

That’s a conversation people had to have and strategize, because…

Ian-Jones Quartey: It just didn’t exist.

Rebecca Sugar: Yeah! And, and, I love reading about the, um, like the people who came together to make, to make gay pride a thing. And I think now it’s a thing that we, maybe… I don’t think we take it for granted ‘cause it’s something…

Ian-Jones Quartey: It’s something you know about. You never think that there was a meeting where people had to really come up with the concept…

Rebecca Sugar: Right, where [inaudible]… I think it’s really exciting and it’s really beautiful and the thing that makes me excited is that, um, if we can find each other and have these conversations about what it would take to make our lives better, we can start taking action in the world, just like people did years ago. Um, that is so, um, just beautiful and exciting to me…

Um, yeah, I think, uh, uh, I think a lot of people are probably familiar with Queer Nation, they invented “we’re here, we’re Queer, get used to it”… that’s them! These are things that people, uh… [quietly] you know… people… [laughs nervously]… these are things that people came up with, to help improve each other’s lives. We can, we can, we can do this. Um… sorry. Thank you so much.

[Audience applauds]