After Homosexual: The Legacies of Gay Liberation is a collection of reflective essays, edited by Carolyn D’Cruz and Mark Pendleton, on Dennis Altman’s seminal book, Homosexual: Liberation and Oppression.¹ The collection was published after a conference marking the fortieth anniversary of Altman’s work and is divided into three parts. The first, ‘Looking Back’, has pieces by Altman’s contemporaries, reflecting on their first encounter with the book and the politically charged context of its publication. The second part is a selection of materials from the Australian Gay and Lesbian Archives (AGLA), chronicling the burgeoning gay rights movement in Australia that Altman was intimately involved in upon his return to the country in 1969. The last part, ‘Moving on’, contains pieces from a wide range of scholars, including Christos Tsiolkas, Neville Hoad and Elena Jeffreys, that reflect on the current state of the gay rights movement in the context of the Western world and its likely direction in the future.