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The article discusses In March of 2020, as the world's states began fully responding to a global pandemic that had been unfolding for months, still evidenced in the year stamped on the virus's name, COVID-19, Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte imposed a military-style lockdown on the country's largest and most populous island, Luzon, including Metro Manila and its environs.

Discusses homosexual, mixed-race, Filipino American Andrew Cunanan, the serial killer responsible for the deaths of five people in 1997, from the perspective of the Filipino American community. The author looks at three cultural productions that fictionalize Cunanan's life using a queer studies approach: 'Most Wanted,' a musical theater piece by Jessica Hagedorn and Mark Bennett that premiered in 2007, and two short stories, Gina Apostal's "Cunanan's Wake" (2003) and Jason Luz's "Scherzo for Cunanan" (1998) to show how the one-dimensional language describing Cunanan in the mass media is further complicated and expanded in artistic performance and literature.