A beloved voice actor was just murdered for being gay. At least, that’s the narrative that viral post after viral post across social media is pushing. There’s just one problem: As tragic as it is, this alleged murder likely had nothing to do with homosexuality at all.
This past Sunday, Jonathan Joss of King of the Hill fame was shot and killed outside of his home in Southside San Antonio. Initial media reports suggested that this occurred after a dispute with a neighbor, who was arrested in connection with the killing. But Joss’s surviving spouse, Tristan Kern de Gonzales, took to Facebook to claim that the man who killed him approached them “yelling violent homophobic slurs.” Kern de Gonzales ultimately concludes that this was an explicit anti-gay hate crime and that Joss was “murdered by someone who could not stand the sight of two men loving each other.”
