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Asian American groups and LGBTQ allies demand response to anti-Asian harassment amid COVID-19 crisis

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Photo: National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum. Asian American groups and allies, including national and local LGBTQ organizations, are calling on D.C.

Mayor Muriel Bowser to call out what advocates say is a spike in racist harassment and attacks directed against members of the Asian American community amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

The National Asian Pacific American Women’s Forum launched a petition calling on Bowser to stand with the community amid these attacks, which they note have escalated due to rhetoric by politicians, including President Trump, surrounding the Chinese origins of COVID-19.

According to the petition, Asian Americans in D.C. have been yelled at and threatened, and Asian-American women have reported twice as many

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