Samuel Clowes Huneke is not your ordinary scholar. As an associate professor of history at George Mason University, specializing in Europe, he is perfectly positioned to explore the parallels between the historical mechanisms of fascism and our contemporary moment, which often seems to be heading in a dangerous direction for LGBTQ+ communities. Huneke’s path to his latest book, I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany, began with an accidental discovery.