Which city elected the world’s first non-binary mayor in 2021?

Which city elected the world’s first non-binary mayor in 2021?

Bangor, a cathedral city and community in Gwynedd, and the oldest city in Wales, made history in this year’s local and mayoral election by appointing the first openly nonbinary mayor of any city in the world on May 10, 2021._x000D_

Who is the world’s first openly nonbinary mayor?

_x000D_Owen Hurcum, 23, is nonbinary, queer, and agender. They are initially from London and moved to Bangor in 2016 because they “didn’t feel safe” growing up in the British capital. “I could never be myself in London, I knew I was LGBT when I was about 12. I didn’t feel comfortable being ‘out’ in London. It was only when I came to Bangor that I became comfortable in being out,” explains Hurcum in The Guardian.