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Arkansas supermarket reverses decision to hide US Weekly cover featuring Elton John, David Furnish and baby

I got a lecture from a reader the other day for writing in a post excerpting an US Weekly interview with Elton John and David Furnish that Elton at times has been a little bitchy.
The reader chastised me for not acknowledging the historical significance of two gay men and their baby making the cover of one of the major weekly magazines.
It’s a good point and one that really hit home after I read on Towleroad.com today that Harps grocery store in Mountain Home, Arkansas, covered the magazine with a shield “to protect young Harps shoppers.”
Thankfully, this outrageous act was made public by a vigilant shopper and tweeter.
Now comes word that the store has reversed its decision.
Reports CNN: The Arkansas-based grocery chain lets managers at its 65 stores decide when customers complain if the shield is needed, but it is usually for photos that are “sexually provocative or too revealing,” Harps Food Stores President Kim Eskew said.Complaints poured into the chain’s headquarters this week after photos of the shielded magazine spread across internet blogs and news websites.

“When we began receiving complaints at our corporate office, we reviewed the magazine in question, removed the shield and are selling the magazine in all our locations today without any cover,” Eskew said Wednesday. “Our true intention is not to offend anyone in our stores and this incident happened at just one of our 65 locations, which, when brought to our attention, we reversed.”

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