Huneke's book shows how love, queer resistance, and collective action survived in during Nazi rule. Drawing from many years of archival research, Huneke's book takes readers into a hidden world, from the wartime balls that lesbian activists continued to organize to the concentration camps where women accused of loving women were imprisoned. Following a diverse cast of characters, Huneke reveals both the oppression that queer women faced and how they resisted fascism in solidarity with one another. One reviewer hails the book as "a profoundly gripping, moving, and beautifully researched account of solidarity, non-conformity, and ambivalent lives in a dictatorship. In our current time the book offers an urgent read.” Another writes, "Huneke's book eloquently refutes long-held historical misunderstandings – also regarding the entanglements of trans and lesbian lives – and offers profound original insights into the vexing mess of overlapping categories of vulnerability... that brought especially poorer queer women to the attention of the police, brutal imprisonments, and often untimely death.”
The book is Huneke's third. The first was States of Liberation: Gay Men between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (University of Toronto Press, 2022), in which he examines gay persecution and liberation in Germany during the Cold War. The book was awarded the 2023 David Barclay Book Prize from the German Studies Association as well as the 2022 Charles E. Smith Award from the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. It was also shortlisted for the Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize. Huneke is also the author of A Queer Theory of the State, published in October 2023.