Ray was born in Whitesburg, Ky., on June 27, 1965, the youngest child of Tom and Pat Gish. From an early age Ray was intimately involved with running the family's newspaper, the Mountain Eagle, one of the most important journalistic endeavors of our era.
By the mid-1980s, Ray's determination to build a better, more just world spurred him to become a canvass director and organizer for Greenpeace. He led campaigns for environmental justice all over the country, inspired countless others to join the fight.
Ray moved to Brooklyn in 1994 where he quickly gained even more friends and fans - and also met Stephen Peloquin, whom, to everyone's joy, he married in 2014. Ray was a pillar of the Park Slope community.
His home base during this time was San Francisco, which remained a special place for him for the rest of his life. Commonwealth Bar, which he founded in 2004, became a culmination of his passion and community engagement.
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