“Absolute chaos with a dollop of empowerment and a sprinkle of hope,” is how Munroe Bergdorf describes Queerpiphany. The hilarious (and slightly unhinged) MTV series follows the activist slash model and Drag Race UK icon Tayce as they sit down with an array of stars from the LGBTQ+ community to discuss iconic moments in popular culture that helped them come to terms with their queerness.

“[Queerpiphany] is a bunch of camp twats talking about their livelihoods, the ups and the downs and it’s not like, ‘Oh woe is me!’ It’s a celebration of queerness in the best way,” says Tayce. Available every Thursday on MTV UK’s YouTube channel, the second season features Heartstopper’s breakout star Yasmin Finney, singer-songwriter MNEK, Drag Race UK season three alum Kitty Scott-Claus, West End’s Layton Williams and rapper Lava La Rue.

Read ahead for our full interview with Munroe and Tayce, where they discuss the second season of Queerpiphany, Yasmin’s impact on LGBTQ+ youth and why it’s crucial to showcase more queer joy in mainstream media.

Munroe Bergdorf

Congratulations on a second season of Queerpiphany! C’mon MTV?!

I know, it’s so mad! When you really think about it, I was watching MTV when I was a kid. I was obsessed. When I should’ve been doing my homework, I was watching MTV, which is not something I advocate for, but that was the tea. To have a show on MTV, and have it be with Tayce as well… A Black trans woman and a Black drag queen have their own show on MTV, which is huge. You would have never thought that when I was growing up, so it’s amazing how time changes. I’m excited to be part of that change.

What I love about Queerpiphany is that it’s completely unhinged and so joyous. Was it important for you both, from the get-go, to have the show be as fun as possible?

I think so. I do a lot of serious stuff with my career, so it’s really nice to show that I have a fun side and silly sense-of-humour. That’s so integral to queer culture, as well. Me and Tayce come from the nightlife circuit and we’ve actually known each other for a really long time, so it’s really important to have queer humour come through and let loose. Talking about these important parts of our lives doesn’t always have to be so serious, that there is a dark sense-of-humour that runs throughout the queer experience. Looking back at harder times and moments that helped you feel more free in your queerness is extremely difficult, but also it comes with a big dollop of humour. It’s a positive take on coming out, which is difficult for everyone.

Although it’s still important to showcase LGBTQ+ strife, it does feel like representation of queer trauma still heavily outweighs the positive.

Joy is really important, especially in these times when it’s so easy to lapse into doom-scrolling and when there’s so much negativity being reported on, because there is so much negativity in the world right now. What we really do need is more stories of queer joy, more stories of people finding themselves and looking at the bright side rather than getting bogged down in the negativity that is around us.

How did you and Tayce find the reaction to season one?

So good! It was really nice to just see people get it. I’m such an obsessee of camp, from John Waters to early RuPaul; a real silly, over-the-top sense-of-humour. It really harks back to the 90s with shows like EuroTrash and The RuPaul Show, and I really liked all of that when I was a kid. Being camp was seen as such a negative thing when I was a kid, so being able to reclaim that and hopefully help younger queer people who are watching this not feel ashamed of being effeminate or camp and see it as something that is part of our community – not something they can shy away from.