David Taffet

Senior Staff Writer

David Taffet began freelancing for Dallas Voice in 1989, but in May 2008, began writing for the newspaper full-time.

He grew up in Yonkers, N.Y. and graduated from State University of New York at Albany with a degree in English.

In 1979, he was working retail in New York City and was transferred to Dallas to manage the company’s NorthPark store. Since then, he has worked in retail and wholesale, was part owner of a travel agency and has hosted radio and television talk shows.

While working at the travel agency, he began writing a travel column for Dallas Voice. That column appeared monthly for 10 years and developed into other arts writing. Now he is a news writer.

Since 1990, he has been a co-host of the KNON-FM talk show Lambda Weekly, the oldest, longest running LGBT talk show on the air anywhere.

In 2005, he hosted a daily talk show for the short-lived Q Television Network, an LGBT cable network that predated Logo and was based in Fort Worth suburb Haltom City.

He has served on the boards of Dallas Gay and Lesbian Alliance, The Foundation for Human Understanding now known as Resource Center, Lesbian/Gay Rights Lobby now known as Equality Texas, Congregation Beth El Binah and the regional board of the Union for Reform Judaism.

In addition to doing talk shows on radio and TV, he has appeared in a number of TV shows and films including JFK, Born on the Fourth of July, Prison Break, Walker Texas Ranger, Inspector Mom and Friday Night Lights. He’s usually cast as a reporter and his lines usually end up on the cutting room floor. But he’s proudest of his performance in the indy film Crushed where he played a rapist.

In 2013, he was honored with the Raymond Kuchling Humanitarian Award by Black Tie Dinner.

He lives in Oak Lawn with his partner Jeremy and a cat who thinks his name is UpUpUp.

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