Is there anything really gay about Felix's work and is it political above and beyond the fact that the social is always political? I do not think so but it does beg an interesting question. Is there in art today a conception of the body which is specifically gay? A straight Argentinean friend of mine remarked to me that he sees a connection between certain Brazilian contemporary artists' relationships to the body and those of certain gay North American ones. The relationship, he thought, is that many gay American artists do not employ a mind/body split in their work. Similarly, conceptualizing the body does not, in Brazil, he claims, mean desensualizing it. In a sense, my Catholic friend credited certain American gay artists with "deprotestantizing" American art. The fact that the most coherent statement of gay sensibility in American art that I have heard came from a straight Argentinean at a New York gym is perplexing to say the least, and that it pertains so neatly to Felix is fortuitous.