After taking time away from football to discover herself, the Matilda is now a Rainbow Ambassador for Sydney WorldPride and an advocate for LGBTQIA+ inclusion in sport.
abc.net.au/news/matildas-player-chloe-logarzo-wants-to-leave-a-different-legacy/102020538Eight years ago, in a small, half-empty bar somewhere in Greece, Chloe Logarzo realised she had hit rock-bottom.
With Italian and Scottish ancestry, the midfielder often jokes that she had no choice but to become a footballer. Her childhood was a blur of western Sydney football fields, running around with her all-male cousins, and always accompanied by her coach-dad and manager-mum. Heartbroken, the 20-year-old did what she had taught herself to do whenever something she loved hurt her: cut and run.
She found comfort in destruction; all the parties and substances distracting her from the question she was struggling to confront. Who was she if she wasn't a footballer? "In the process of me losing my shit, I started to realise that I needed to make myself happy; I needed to be who I am," she says. Logarzo wants to share her coming-out story in the hope that other LGBTQIA+ people feel inspired to live their authentic selves.
For the first few years after she came to consciousness of her sexuality, she kept that part of herself hidden. She'd sneak around with girlfriends, avoid conversations, or lie entirely.
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