Store reverses decision to hide Elton John magazine cover
Plate placed above the current Us Weekly to read the "Family Shield FK young buyers."
Arkansas-based food chain, the leaders of its 65 stores to decide when customers complain, if the protection is necessary, but usually the images that are "sexually provocative or too revealing" Harps Food Store, President Kim has Eskew said.
Complaints poured into the headquarters of the chain this week pictures of the magazine spread testing over the Internet blogs and news sites.
"When we started to receive complaints to our office, we reviewed the journal in question, the shield was removed and sold the magazine in all our offices today without coverage," Eskew said Wednesday. "Our real intent is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened to one of our 65 sites, which when brought to our attention, we reverse."
Us Weekly's West Coast Bureau Chief Melanie Bromley, who wrote the cover story, says the issue has been a good seller in the magazine.
"He was very convincing them (the players) and people really felt the emotion with them (John and Furnish)," said Bromley. "So people wanted to read about and see the first pictures of little Zachary."
Bromley has seen any complaints from readers who have gay couple with a baby on the cover.
"As far as I know, there were no negative comments at all," she said. "I have not had an e-mail of any negative message to everyone. The only kind of feedback I got was positive that people are so happy for them. "
People magazine said in another same-sex couples with their babies on the cover of its January 10, 2011 version. But the image of Neil Patrick Harris and his partner David Burtka with their twins were only a small image on the fringes of coverage.
When people see pictures of Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, when they married in 2008, was one of the best selling magazine issues a year, said a spokeswoman.