1. Scott Long founded the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights Program at Human Rights Watch, the first-ever program on LGBT rights at a major "mainstream" human rights organization, and served as its executive director from May 2004 - August 2010.
Scott Long later was a visiting fellow in the Human Rights Program of Harvard Law School from 2011 to 2012.
Scott Long was born June 5,1963, in Radford, Virginia.
Scott Long graduated from Radford University at the age of 18, and received a Ph.
Scott Long became involved with the emerging lesbian and gay movement in Hungary as it developed during the democratic transition.
In 1992 Scott Long accepted a senior Fulbright professorship teaching American studies at the University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Scott Long visited their home towns, interviewed family members, and confronted the arresting officer and prosecutors.
The international pressure Scott Long helped create won the two their freedom.
Scott Long was a founding member of the Romanian gay and lesbian organization Accept.
Scott Long's documentation was crucial in persuading the Council of Europe to strengthen its stand on lesbian and gay issues, and to demand that Romania repeal its sodomy law.
Scott Long's work spearheaded a European campaign and contributed strongly to Romania's eventual repeal of Article 200 in 2001.
In 1993 Scott Long conducted the first-ever mission to Albania to investigate the state of LGBT rights and to meet with gay activists there, and his documentation of arrests and abuses helped lead to the repeal of that country's sodomy law.
Scott Long continued to work with activists in Romania, returning to the country in 1997 for additional research.
Scott Long gave UN bodies extensive information and analyses on abuses against LGBT people.
Scott Long's advocacy led to a victory and to IGLHRC's reinstatement.
Scott Long connected homophobia and moral panics in many African countries to economic and political factors, especially the poverty and dislocation caused by structural adjustment programs.
Scott Long wrote a widely used guide to grassroots advocacy at the United Nations.
In 2002, Scott Long left IGLHRC to join Human Rights Watch, the largest US-based human rights organization.
Since 2001, Scott Long had been deeply engaged in combating a crackdown on homosexual conduct in Egypt.
Scott Long's messages spread news of the arrests around the world.
Scott Long went to Egypt for the first time to attend and report on their trial.
In 2004 in Cairo, together with Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth, Scott Long launched a report on the Egyptian crackdown against gays.
The New York Times praised the strategic way Scott Long framed his advocacy:.
Scott Long wrote and advocated extensively against the exams, arguing that they constituted torture.
Scott Long continued to cast a spotlight on abuses in Jamaica during the following years, and to demand government action against them.
Scott Long went to Moscow in 2006 to support Russian activists, including Nikolay Alexeyev, attempting to organize a gay pride march in defiance of an official ban.
Scott Long again documented violence and police arrests at Moscow Pride 2007, where he was briefly detained.
Scott Long wrote a report on those abuses, co-published by Human Rights Watch and the International Lesbian and Gay Association - Europe.
Scott Long continued to work with and support LGBT activists in Africa.
Scott Long repeatedly stressed that state-sponsored homophobia and repressive laws against LGBT people in Africa should not be seen in isolation, but as part of broader government campaigns against civil society.
Scott Long's efforts drew the direct ire not only of the Ugandan government but of notoriously homophobic preacher Martin Ssempa.
Scott 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.
In 2006, Scott Long was the main author of a report on binational same-sex couples and the discrimination they face in US immigration law, amid a fierce religious and social backlash against recognition of same-sex relationships in the United States.
Scott Long has made innumerable contributions to this change, and his leadership has been vital.
Scott Long helped conceive the principles' scope and shape, and served on a secretariat that drafted an initial version for the 16 experts who debated and finalized them.
Scott Long attended the final experts' meeting in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in November 2006.
Scott Long had been threatened earlier in the day, with a letter written in blood.
Scott Long continued to work in support of Iraqis' rights and lives for many years.
Scott Long produced evidence that security forces were implicated in the killings, and showed how other victims, such as men seen as "effeminate" or gay, were being swept up in the murders as well.
Scott Long personally posted warnings in Arabic on more than 500 Iraqis' personals sites and ads with advice about safety.
Scott Long has written on Iraq for publications including the Guardian and Jadaliyya.
Scott Long's work produced controversy in 2005 and 2006 after photographs of the hanging of two teenagers in the city of Mashhad, Iran went viral on the web.
Scott Long urged that the executions should be condemned, but that it was not necessary to believe the youths were either "gay" or completely innocent to do so.
Peter Tatchell wrote to Human Rights Watch in 2010, and Kenneth Roth and Scott Long issued an apology in June 2010.
Scott Long documented the arrests from the start, interviewing as many as possible of the victims and publicizing many accounts on his blog, A Paper Bird.
Scott Long stressed the role of gender in the persecution, and the way that transgender women and "effeminate" men were especially targeted for arrest.
Scott Long worked on a legal guide for endangered LGBT Egyptians that was published, in Arabic, on his blog.
Scott Long published warnings, in both English and Arabic, about Internet entrapment and surveillance in Egypt and how to protect online privacy.
Scott Long helped organize several social media campaigns in Egypt to mobilize opposition to the crackdown.
The shocking pictures of the raid Scott Long published galvanized indignation at the arrests, both inside Egypt and beyond.
Scott Long was interviewed extensively by publications such as The New York Times, the Guardian, BuzzFeed, and Global Post, as well as in the Egyptian media.
Scott Long wrote about the human rights crisis in Egypt in such venues as the Irish Times and the Advocate.
Scott Long gathered I was interested in human rights, he said.
Scott Long added, almost enticingly, that he himself had been tortured, and offered to show me his scars.