Dear Editor:

I enjoyed reading your article on “Where Not to Cruise” (Agenda, January 23, 2013, TRAVEL). Providing information to the LGBT community on where is not safe to travel is as important as providing them information on where we are welcome.

I was then concerned when I turned to the back cover and saw an advertisement on a getaway to Belize. I am confused.

It’s bad energy to have an editorial that the LGBT community should avoid Belize in the same issue as you accept advertising dollars encouraging the same community to visit Belize.

Yes, we can make our own decisions on where we travel and the editorial you provide assists in that decision-making, it just makes no sense to me why those two phenomena—a searing article against traveling to Belize and an ad designed to entice a visit to Belize—would occur in the same magazine together, ever.

My concern would be for the person who saw the ad and did not read the article and booked a trip and got hurt or arrested.

Steve Klugerman