Uncovering America: Fighting for Acceptance - Special Reports from CNN.com

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From the basic desires for understanding to the complex issues of adoption and marriage, the LGBT community faces an array of challenges.

• Gay life: Change and challenge
• Poll majority: Gays' orientation can't change | Poll results
• Gay America: Behind the numbers

• Step by step, researcher looks for sexuality clues
• Same-sex adoption: A new take on the American family
• Audio Slide Show: Same-sex adoption, a family's story
• Election Center 2008: Contenders on same-sex marriage
• Map: State-by-state hate crime, same-sex marriage laws
• Gallery: Hollywood and homosexuality

• More Uncovering America special reports:
The Road to Equality | The Asian-American Journey

Watch as CNN examines the issues confronted by the LGBT community from service in the military to the politics of same-sex marriage.

• History of the gay rights movement

• Gay pride in New York

• The science of sexuality

• The plight of gay homeless teens

• What is transgender?

• A transgender pastor risks losing his church

• A transgender teen's journey

• Ex-city manager: I was fired for becoming a woman

• 7-year-old transgender relates her experience

• 'Don't ask, don't tell' policy under fire

• Episcopal congregations struggle over homosexuality

• The evolving 'ex-gay' movement

• From gay to straight

• The 'gospel of inclusion'

Do you think a federal amendment banning same-sex marriage will pass in the near future?

Yes, it’s only a matter of time till the votes are there

No, the political will does not exist for it to pass

No, it will remain a decision left to individual states

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