Even when I was a newborn, my mum told me my father didn't want a third girl." Tomar, 31, was born in a small village called Budhana in Uttar Pradesh, a state in northern India.

Jill Sobule, the singer and songwriter whose 1995 hit “I Kissed a Girl” was the rare pop song of that era to take an openly queer theme into the cultural mainstream, died Thursday. She was 66.