Did you ever see the film version of Maurice by E.M. Forster? Here was an English gay male writer who asked that the book not be published until after his death because he knew that it was impossible that anyone living in the Edwardian era would publish it, he lived rather a long time..at any rate! In the 90s... Recently in other words, a film is made from it as there is so much wonderful British fiction and so many wonderful British actors in need of period piece acting....more digressions.
Well aside from having a gay male protagonist, his book had an ending that wasn't awful, another reason why it couldn't be published in its day. So what do the filmmakers do? They rewrite the ending and make it awful. WTH? I hope that E.M. Forster rose from the grave to smite them in their sleep because even living in his day he hoped for better times, and probably thought that once he had passed on it would be much more possible.

I agree with your post!