Tegan and Sara have a new video out. The song is called “Faint of Heart”, and the video features a whole lot of young LGBTQ artists cosplaying famous pop icons. Being an old lady, I don’t know who most of the kids are, but according to this post we have: Cooper Treibel as David Bowie, Tyler Ford as Prince, Ella Giselle as Madonna, Dominic Ravina as Elvis Presley, Olabisi Kovabel as Grace Jones, Eli Erlick as Sara, and Ni Ching-Marino as Tegan. Ella, of course, was on Season 2 of I Am Cait. I’ll have to check the others out.

If you look carefully you can find Tegan and Sara in the audience shots. And if you know what you are looking for you can also find two fine trans actresses: Angelica Ross and Jen Richards (stars of the Emmy-nominated Her Story). The producer, Devon Kirkpatrick, gave them roles as two mothers helping their kids make the costumes. That is a wonderful thing to have done. Well done to everyone involved.

Update: The ever reliable Mey over at Autostraddle has done a post about the video. She knows far more about the young stars than I do. As I suspected, most of them are trans-identified in some way. Even the director is trans. Thank you again, Tegan & Sara.