pic.twitter.com/pGHiaQTVaOThey told North Wales Live: ‘I came here as a student five years ago, just because it was a place to study and it looked quite nice.‘Within a week, I fell in love with it and tried to throw myself into the city’s culture.’They said their first priority would be community cohesion, saying: ‘My first steps as Bangor’s mayor will be reaching across the different divisions of the community, continuing the good work of the departing mayor, and trying to get more grants in to develop the city.’Some contested the claim that Owen is the world’s first non-binary city mayor, suggesting that Georgina Beyer, who was elected mayor of Carterton in New Zealand back in 1995, was actually the world’s first.Boris Johnson.