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If Bisexual Icon Li Shang Isn't in Live-Action Mulan I'm Exhuming Walt Disney So He Can Slap Some Sense Into His Employees

Bi Icon Li Shang Probably Isn’t in the Live-Action ‘Mulan’ & We’re UPSET

People are NOT happy with Disney's bisexual erasure.

Taylor Henderson

Taylor Henderson is a PRIDE.com contributor. This proud Texas Bama studied Media Production/Studies and Sociology at The University of Texas at Austin, where he developed his passions for pop culture, writing, and videography. He's absolutely obsessed with Beyoncé, mangoes, and cheesy YA novels that allow him to vicariously experience the teen years he spent in the closet. He's also writing one!

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Taylor Henderson

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April 19 2018 6:57 PM EST

December 09 2022 9:12 AM EST

You heard right. It's looking like Li Shang, our favorite bisexual legend/inventor of being a man, might not be in the upcoming, live-action Mulan movie.

That's a lot to take in, so I'll say it again. Yes, Li Shang is bisexual. I didn't stutter. It is canon. He clearly has feelings for Mulan's male alter ego, Ping. If not, explain this:

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— \u00b0 Cel \u00b0 CF A-01 (@\u00b0 Cel \u00b0 CF A-01) 1523931515

Now that that's that, let's move on.

Twitter user @nerdyasians was first to note the absence of Li Shang's character on Disney's casting call, instead seemingly replaced by a new love interest named Chen Honghui.

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The casting call describes Chen as another army recruit who is "determined to be the best soldier in human history." At first, he bullies Mulan, who he believes to be his biggest male rival, "but after learning, his rival is a woman, his intense feelings of rivalry turn into something very different, something like love."

Why is Disney erasing chiselled animated hunk of a man Li Shang, and with him his aggressively bisexual identity? We have no idea, but we're not the only ones outraged.

\u201cdisney on a mission to make Mulan as straight and stale as possible\u201d
— Becca Farrow \ud83d\udda4\ud83e\udd0e\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udde1\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9c (@Becca Farrow \ud83d\udda4\ud83e\udd0e\u2764\ufe0f\ud83e\udde1\ud83d\udc9b\ud83d\udc9a\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc9c) 1523978991

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\u201ci\u2019m disgusted. disney is obviously still mad they accidentally made li shang bisexual, so they\u2019re REMOVING ANY POSSIBILITY that \u201cchen\u201d is seen as bisexual. they make it clear he HATES mulan the whole time she\u2019s presenting male. he bullies her up until he finds out she\u2019s a woman. https://t.co/vsj5B9uDGp\u201d
— princess mizzy \ud83c\udf39 (@princess mizzy \ud83c\udf39) 1523894003

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