Another Lesbian Scandal at ’Horndog High’

by Steve Weinstein

EDGE Media Network Contributor

Thursday January 28, 2010

The school has been dubbed "Horndog High" by the New York Daily News. Now the tabloid has another scandal at James Madison, the New York City high school, located in the middle-class Midwood section of Brooklyn.

Lisa Gutilla, 37, was moonlighting as a volleyball coach at a private school, Poly Prep Country Day School. The mother of one of her players, a 14-year-old girl, had asked her about a hickey on her neck.

The girl allegedly told her mother about "sexy sessions" with Gutilla. Gutilla was then charged in Brooklyn Brooklyn Criminal Court with a complaint she did "touch, grab, squeeze and kiss the [girl] about the breast and buttock."

Guttilla was charged with sexual abuse and child endangerment and sent to what is known in New York City teaching circles as the "rubber room," a reassignment center for teachers under investigation for misconduct.

The story follows accusations of sexual harassment from a teacher of an assistant principal. More sensationally, two young attractive female teachers were allegedly caught in an intimate moment by a janitor back in December.

As reported on EDGE, Alini Brito, 29, and Cindy Mauro, 33, were both Romance language instructors at the time. Brito's husband said she denied the charges.

As if that weren't enough, another report at the time, had it that yet another female teacher at James Madison was under investigation for sexting a male student.

Steve Weinstein has been a regular correspondent for the International Herald Tribune, the Advocate, the Village Voice and Out. He has been covering the AIDS crisis since the early '80s, when he began his career. He is the author of "The Q Guide to Fire Island" (Alyson, 2007).