Long also campaigned for years against homophobic policies in Uganda. He traced connections between discrimination in Uganda and Bush administration-era policies in the U.S., arguing in 2007 that "When the U.S. funds abstinence-only programmes in Uganda, it tells people that LGBT people's sexualities are dangerous and must be denied." Long and Human Rights Watch also documented how U.S. anti-HIV/AIDS funding had been funneled to groups actively promoting homophobia in Uganda. Long's efforts drew the direct ire not only of the Ugandan government but of notoriously homophobic preacher Martin Ssempa. Long helped coordinate international responses to the draconian Anti-Homosexuality Bill after it was introduced in 2009, working to ensure that international groups took their guidance from domestic Ugandan advocates. The bill "is clearly an attempt to divide and weaken civil society by striking at one of its most marginalized groups," he said; "the government may be starting here, but who will be next?" In an interview shortly after the bill's appearance, Long explained its origins in the politics of moral panic: