WATCH: Pauley Perrette Sings for Trevor Project

The NCIS actress and singer is promoting the LGBT youth helpline with a new music video.

Trudy Ring

Trudy Ring is The Advocate’s senior politics editor and copy chief. She has been a reporter and editor for daily newspapers and LGBTQ+ weeklies/monthlies, trade magazines, and reference books. She is a political junkie who thinks even the wonkiest details are fascinating, and she always loves to see political candidates who are groundbreaking in some way. She enjoys writing about other topics as well, including religion (she’s interested in what people believe and why), literature, theater, and film. Trudy is a proud “old movie weirdo” and loves the Hollywood films of the 1930s and ’40s above all others. Other interests include classic rock music (Bruce Springsteen rules!) and history. Oh, and she was a Jeopardy! contestant back in 1998 and won two games. Not up there with Amy Schneider, but Trudy still takes pride in this achievement.

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February 15 2015 6:00 AM EST

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Longtime LGBT ally Pauley Perrette is promoting the Trevor Project with a music video for her new song "Beautiful Child."

Perrette, star of NCIS, premiered the video Friday on Entertainment Tonight. "The 'Beautiful Child' video is for saving lives," she told ET's Kevin Frazier. "It's to inform young kids out there -- especially the LGBT kids, which are four times more likely to commit suicide -- to let them know that there is a resource out there and that resource is the Trevor Project." The Trevor Project provides crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBT and questioning young people.

Perrette was inspired to write the song after learning that the brother of a friend had committed suicide, she told Frazier. She's going to release an album, but she wanted to get "Beautiful Child" out as soon as possible, she said. "The whole point is to get more people and more people aware and to save lives," she explained.

Several other celebrities join her in the video, including NCIS costar Michael Weatherly and two out stars, Kirsten Vangsness of Criminal Minds and singer Lance Bass. Watch below.