No-one seems to be accusing him of an actual crime. It sounds like his victims/partners willingly carried him on their backs or did workouts together or took their shirts off. It sounds very similar to what many pairs opposite sex people do when one invites the other back to their hotel room. If it was a woman and she wasn't sexually interested in him, she would be unlikely to go along so far - certainly not taking off clothes in a hotel room! Does it just seem worse because it's gay? Maybe it's worse because young men in those days didn't think that other men might be gay so they misread his advances?