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Right of Publicity is complicated.
4 Points:
-Mainly it applies to the use of a name/likeness of a celebrity. You and your girlfriend aren't celebrities, so you don't really have the right to control somebody reprinting a picture of you in a public place. The theory is that you were out in public, so people saw you, there's no harm if people are seeing you again in a picture.
-Also it's more like somebody selling your picture on a t-shirt, coffee mug, backpack, etc. Now they are selling your image. They aren't really selling your image in the magazine, or to put it another way, your image isn't selling the magazine, so it wouldn't really matter if it were for profit. The magazine is selling the news, not your image.
-Journalists may have an independent right to report the news. The public's right to know can trump your right to privacy, especially if you are in a public place. This would be decided by a Court.
-Different states have different laws related to this issue. Some have no laws, and some have complicated laws and extensive bodies of litigation related to this issue, but most of them focus on celebrities + actual commercial use of the "likeness". I don't know what state you are in to say specifically what the law is there.
You can ask them nicely and maybe they will consider it (or not). But if they are using your photo in promotional materials of the magazine, then you will have a stronger argument.
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