Meet Kansas City’s oldest gay nudist

​No, Victor — we’ll just call him Victor — didn’t go to the Gay Pride festivities last weekend. He moves a bit slowly on his walker these days; he’s 88 years old, after all. And his longtime companion, who is also named Victor — we’ll refer to him as young Victor because he’s only 80 — is recovering from recent surgery.

Both Victors are honorary lifetime members of Kansas City’s oldest gay nudist group — KC Strip — which they helped to organize back in 1972. In those days, it was just good, clean, healthy fun to sit around naked while eating snacks and socializing. Six people showed up to the first meeting (“Two of them never came back,” Victor says), and the host served chili. Sex didn’t rear its ugly head, as it were, in those early days. It wasn’t until much later, when KC Strip became a lot more popular, that some of the members sneaked off to other areas of a host’s home to do something a little more erotic than just eat snacks and socialize.