More than 100 people tried to convene on a beach but were turned away by police in Uganda, where homosexuality is illegal.

Isaac Kasamani / AFP / Getty Images LGBT Ugandans demonstrating in 2014.

Police in Uganda have blocked LGBT people and their supporters from holding a pride parade, after the country's ethics minister warned such a demonstration would be illegal. More than 100 people tried to convene on a beach in Entebbe on Lake Victoria but were ordered back into their minibuses by police and told to leave the area, human rights lawyer Nicholas Opiyo told BuzzFeed News. "The police arrived at the venue before the event organizers," Opiyo said. After being blocked at the first location, dozens of others were prevented by police from holding a second parade at another location, Kisubu beach. One woman, Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera, refused to leave the public beach, so police towed her car, Opiyo said.

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LGBT leader Frank Mugisha told Agence France-Presse that one man jumped from a moving minibus and injured himself.

"They are traumatized," he said.

Some demonstrators said officers had been leading parade-goers back to a police station in Kampala, but Opiyo said "nobody has been formally arrested, as far as we know yet."

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