President Packer's institute song is gay by contemporary standards. However, my father, who would have been just a few years younger than Packer, and his friends (all non-LDS including my dad) used to call themselves the "Gopher Boys" and sing a song that went "we're the Gopher boys, and we "gopher" girls, but they don't gopher us" followed by gopher noises. Apparently this was not considered enormously geeky in the 40's and 50's.
BTW I have always thought of Elder Packer as the Darth Vader of the Q12.
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