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Tony/Olivier Award-Winning actress Lea Salonga originally auditioned for Mulan's voice, but it was deemed "not deep enough" for when Mulan is impersonating a male soldier.

When Mulan sings "Reflection" in her father's shrine, the writing on the temple stones is the names of the Disney animators who worked on the film, written in ancient Chinese.

Also, the deleted version shows Mulan riding Khan through mountains and a swamp. In the deleted version, Mulan not only takes off her bun, makeup, and jewelery, she also takes off her sashes.

This song was meant to be much longer, but the filmmakers wanted to save time in the movie.

I am volunteering for LGBT+ people of colour, people of faith and sharing my #YoungerMe experience as part of Just Like Us’ campaign this December.Disney's Princess Lullaby Album: Soothing Instrumental Lullabies for Little Princessesĭisney Princess: The Ultimate Song Collectionĭisney Karaoke Series: Disney Princess Music Boxĭisney Princess Music Collection: Live Your Story What is more important to me is that I stay visible for young LGBT+ people who are struggling with their identity. However, this has not stopped me from volunteering and I am no longer hiding the fact that I’m a lesbian. Until today, I am yet to tell my community about my sexuality. I know that eventually – if schools devote a space for students to learn about LGBT+ experiences – there will come a time where young LGBT+ people won’t feel like they owe anyone an explanation for their sexuality or gender identity. I truly believe that Just Like Us has the potential to help schools create safe environments for young LGBT+ people where they are encouraged to be themselves. We would have been educated about the detrimental effects of LGBT+ bullying, too. Perhaps, people around me at school would have spoken with more empathy too and “gay” and “lesbian” wouldn’t have been thrown around by me or by anyone else as if they were dirty words. I wouldn’t have given myself such a hard time for being a lesbian. If Just Like Us had visited my school when I was young, with their incredibly diverse and caring ambassadors, I would have been kinder to myself. Being an ambassador with Just Like Us is incredibly personal to me.

I now volunteer with Just Like Us, going into schools to speak about being LGBT+.

Having more inclusive education at school would’ve made this process a whole lot easier. Now I firmly know that being a lesbian doesn’t make you any less of a Christian but it was a tough journey to realising this. I needed to know that these intersecting identities in a person can exist. I needed someone to validate my existence as a Filipina, a Christian and a lesbian. My parent’s only child cannot be a lesbian.

The necessity of filial piety in Filipino culture meant that I could not and should not come out. So I started to keep things to myself – even at school. Suddenly for me, all of the comforting words and encouraging smiles from my family friends turned to scrutinising questions and prying eyes. I was hiding an important part of myself to my own community. But it always felt like I was half in and half out (no pun intended) and when my struggle about my sexuality kicked in secondary school, it all made sense. It was comforting to have a second family away from home – everyone is my uncle and aunty despite having no blood ties to them and only having met them once in the Asian supermarket. It was just my mum, my dad and I.įortunately, there was a massive Filipino community in where I live so I never lost touch with my roots or my faith. I had to adjust to a new culture, learn a new language, learn to eat boiled vegetables for lunch and I was away from everyone and everything I had ever known. When I moved from the Philippines to the UK at 8 years old. Apart from Vatican City, Philippines is the only other country where divorce does not exist. I was raised in a Christian/Catholic household and I came from an extremely conservative country.

So you can all imagine the distress that I was in when I thought that there was a slight chance that I was not heterosexual. My upbringing paved a straightforward path to my future: find a job, a husband, get married, start a family and go to church every Sunday. This isn’t just because Mulan was the first Asian Disney character – she wasn’t even the right Asian for me to begin with – but because the lyrics to that beautiful song were accidentally LGBT+ coded. Lea Salonga’s song “Reflection” helped younger me feel seen. “Now I see That if I were truly to be myself, I would break my family’s heart”Īs a first-generation immigrant from the Philippines, a Christian, and a lesbian, I consider Mulan’s “Reflection” to be my coming-out anthem.